Some great typesetting rules here. Most of them don’t really apply to the web (that is to say, they should, but we simply don’t have the control to allow for them), but there are a few that do. I was particularly excited by the rules for emoticons, which I’ve always wondered about. I’d created this rule for myself; I’m glad to see someone else agrees:
A smiley may coincide with a closing bracket (given that it is preceded by an opening one :-).
(Note to Sara Flemming: your ass-backwards open-paren-colon smileys destroy all meaning these rules may have had (:). See!?
Via Dan Mall.
001 // Sara Flemming // 08.25.2008 // 1:15 PM
Cry-baby! (:
If I’m throwing a smiley into a parenthetical aside, I generally add a space after it (RULE BREAKER!) in order to avoid that weird result you’ve got up there in your note. That’s how I do.