• Use only one space between sentences.
• Use real quotation marks.
• Check the punctuation used with quote marks.
• Use real apostrophes.
• Make sure the apostrophes are where they belong.
• Use en and em dashes where appropriate.
• Use the special characters whenever necessary, including super and subscript.
• If a correctly-spelled word needs an accent mark, use it.
• Don't underline.
• Never use all caps in body text; rarely use it in heads.
• If printing to the LaserWriter, never use a city-named font.
• Never use the space bar to align text.
• Use a decimal or right-aligned tab for the numbers in numbered paragraphs
• Leave no widows or orphans.
• Never have more than two hyphenations in a row.
• Avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph.
• On every line of text in the document, watch all line breaks carefully. Be sensible.
• Keep the line spacing consistent.
• Adjust the spacing between paragraphs; rarely use a full line of space between paragraphs in body text.
• Either indent the first line of paragraphs or add extra space between them -- not both.
• Never justify the text on a short line.
• Use serif type for body text unless you are going to compensate for the lower readability of sans serif.
• Never combine two serif fonts on one page.
• Never combine two sand serif fonts on one page.
• Never combine more than two typefaces on one page. (Can use one serif and one sans serif.)
• Don't be a wimp.
• Use italic and bold sparingly.
• Encourage white space.
• Don't crowd text inside a box -- let it breathe.
• Be Consistent.
• Use some sort of bullet when listing items, not a hyphen.
• Avoid abbreviations.
• Reduce the size of the punctuation marks in headlines.
• Set the space before an italic word also in italic.