good fucking lord. the chicago manual of style is, without embellishment, the most delightfully autistic piece of text i’ve ever read. in the first chapter, there is:
- 7 subsections on the rules of running heads
- 16 subsections for the copyright page, spanning 5 1/2 pages and including how to write a statement for paper durability
- a section on covers on jackets, a section on writing metadata
- subsections for “page numbers for journals that use a continuous publishing model”
the entire thing is formatted in many sections and subsections and sub- sub- sections, and each of the smallest sections is given a number… first by part/chapter, then linearly upwards, (1.1, 1.2, 1.3… 1.312 and so on), which feels sooo nice!!
it’s so detailed. it’s so well organized. this is astonishing. i’m going to read the entire thing front to back.
