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Since I started writing words, I will follow a certain kind of rules. This rule has changed from time to time, and the original version is not the same as the current version.
Not counting the homework assigned by the school when I was studying, but only writing out of interest. My tools are a pen and a small notebook. I always leave the first page (both sides) of the book blank and start writing on the second line of the second page. I don’t have any particular motivation, I just think it’s more ritualistic to start writing this way. In addition, my writing will become smaller and smaller. At the beginning, the text can still occupy the height of a line. When I write in the second half of a page, the square characters are only less than half the height of a line. This is a bad habit, but fortunately, it will be changed later. In elementary school and junior high school, I wrote two (unfinished) novels, a game production log and a collection of short rehearsal scripts, as well as miscellaneous adapted lyrics and thoughts and so on.
When I was in high school, I no longer followed any rules, nor did I write down line by line. Instead, I wrote in any position, in any size, and in any language, according to my mood. Most of these sentences are violent, full of dissatisfaction with society, and a lot of negative attitudes and thoughts. Fortunately, my Chinese teacher in high school entertained while teaching, and the message she left for me is still on the about page of the blog. I am very grateful to her.
The habit of writing in a notebook has continued until college. As an adult, I started to write seriously, bought a few hardcover A5 notebooks, kept a journal and read Bible reflections. It took three years to write two books just like this, and the handwriting went from careful to eclectic. The font itself is not the most important thing, but these words record the friendship and love, cynicism and family and country feelings in the ignorant period of youth.
The above is the physical writing, and I am used to recording more text through the keyboard. Various platform blogs, from childhood to now, can be divided into two distinct periods.
At first, I liked to type traditional characters, because I thought it belonged to [orthodox] at the time, so that most of my diaries were written in traditional characters. The fancy traditional characters on the paper are really hard to read now. In addition, I also like to use half-width. All punctuation marks such as commas, periods, and exclamation points use half-width, which looks more space-saving. Therefore, I have a special habit of using ellipsis (the ellipsis is particularly frequent in the second period): I type more than 6 half-width periods, and occasionally add two slashes at the end [//]. Looking at the text at that time now, it looks like sparse caterpillars crawling on a pile of wool balls.
As I grow older, I feel more and more [awe] about writing, and I have a more systematic understanding of typography. Blogs and official accounts have become an indispensable nutrient in my life, and excellent authors and their layouts have subtly influenced me. So my writing gradually developed the following main rules:
- Formal articles strictly abide by the correct use of Chinese and English punctuation marks (some exceptions);
- After the punctuation mark at the end of an English sentence, start a new sentence with a blank space;
- Spaces are used to distinguish between Chinese and English words other than the beginning and end of the sentence;
- Chinese sentences use full-width symbols, and Latin sentences use half-width symbols;
- A blank line between paragraphs (this habit comes from the understanding of Markdown syntax);
- Use [] or “” for quotation marks (I reject right-angle quotation marks);
- Strictly follow the brand or fixed vocabulary (iPhone/iCloud/OneDrive/WordPress etc.)
Most of the above rules are consistent withthe Chinese copywriting and layout guidelines , and the source of inspiration for this article is also this article. Because I am used to this typesetting and I have a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, I will feel very uncomfortable if I read articles on the Internet that do not conform to the format, especially those that use Chinese half-width punctuation marks and do not follow the fixed writing method. But I can’t impose my supervisory feelings on others. I will only focus on the content of the text written by others. After all, that is the core. Typesetting is just a superficial skill, just to make it more comfortable to read.
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