Categories for SoftCultReg

SG: Interinstitutional style guide of the Publications office of the European Union, EU style guides

General

In order to work on these tasks, we'll need a mixture of descriptive categories, metrics and controlled vocabularies.

Note: These typographic concentions have mostly been culled from SG. Classical locale data has mostly been ommitted.

Typing conventions (cf. SG, 4.2.1b and 4.2.3e)
Punctuation marks and spacing (cf. SG, 4.2.1b)
Different levels of quotation marks
Strategies of emphasis (SG, 5.4.3)
References and quotations (SG, 5.4.4)
Footnotes (SG, 5.4.4 and SG 8)
Tables (SG, 5.2.2)
Popular fonts
Common styles of measurements (points, pica etc.)
Common paper sizes (often already contained in locale data)
Proof correction marks (SG, 6.3)
Word-processor punctuation marks and spacing (SG, 6.4)
Official names of countries etc (SG, 7.1, normally already contained in locale data)
Preferred structure of publications (cf. SG, 5)
- Design of covers and information bits on it
- dito for title pages
- Preliminary pages and end-matter (SG, 5.3)
- Preferred design of tables of contents
- Preferred design of bibliographies
- Preferred design of the index
- Layout and presentation of main text (SG, 5.4)
- Preferred design of lists (numbered, unnumbered etc.)

Customary greeting formulae
Addressing a married woman/an unmarried one in a different way
Customary levels of formality in business communications Is there a distinction between informal and formal address ("tu" vs. "vous" or "Du" vs. "Sie"?)? If so, is it customarily used in business communications? Is it easy to pass from the formal to the informal form or not?
Is the usual address via first or secondary name or something else still (e. g. via father's name)?
What is the importance of titles?