I'm going to put this here rather than in any individual monster description, as it's really just an FYI that none of the competitors would reasonably know about.
Paizo doesn't use ALL CAPS for *anything.* Not in text headers, not in monster descriptions, or magic items--anything that looks like it's in all caps is actually handled by font and/or style. So there's no need to type anything in all caps--just type it normally.
This also makes it easier if the developer or editor needs to move something around; our largest header style (called H1) looks like it's all caps (for example, Core Rulebook page 30, "Character Advancement") and our next largest header style (called H2) looks like it's just the first letter of each word capped (page 30, "Advancing Your Character"). If you actually typed out CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT instead of Character Advancement, and we shifted that section in development so it was part of another section, we'd have to retype CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT as Character Advancement. Not life-threatening, but an easily-avoided hassle.
Also, because our initial pass at putting bookmarks in a PDF is done by a script that looks for headers, and because it uses the same capitalization as the header uses, if the Character Advancement header was actually typed in all caps, the bookmark would show up in all caps, which looks ugly.
You'd have no way of knowing any of this by looking at a printed product. In fact, I have to remind many of my freelancers of this. So, again, this is just an FYI for the future, and not a reason to disqualify anyone or grade them lower (that goes for the judges and the public!). This is me, nitpicky developer, trying to instill future Paizo authors with some good habits early on. :)
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...If you actually typed out CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT instead of Character Advancement, and we shifted that section in development so it was part of another section, we'd have to retype CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT as Character Advancement. Not life-threatening, but an easily-avoided hassle...
(Pssstt. FYI, Shift-F3 in MS Word cycles through caps.)
...If you actually typed out CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT instead of Character Advancement, and we shifted that section in development so it was part of another section, we'd have to retype CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT as Character Advancement. Not life-threatening, but an easily-avoided hassle...
(Pssstt. FYI, Shift-F3 in MS Word cycles through caps.)
Ooh, nice tip, thanks! :)
(Pssstt. FYI, Shift-F3 in MS Word cycles through caps.)
And I bet my manager already knows that... dude makes mock-ups of new user interface forms in Photoshop using the keyboard almost exclusively. It's scary.
Paizo doesn't use ALL CAPS for *anything.*
Huh. Well, hell.
I presume that the Pathfinder Society Scenarios use the same layout too, so all those Caps-lookin'-things are also a font/style?
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Paizo doesn't use ALL CAPS for *anything.*Huh. Well, hell.
I presume that the Pathfinder Society Scenarios use the same layout too, so all those Caps-lookin'-things are also a font/style?
Correct.
In fact... for me, it's preferable to get in a manuscript with absolutely NO formatting as opposed to one that attempts to mimic our styles without actually using the styles. We generally supply our writers with blank documents that have our styles built in... all outlines we provide have them as well. But if you're not comfortable working with styles in MS Word, it's probably better to just write without any formatting at all. (Bold face and italics are usually fine, though.)
I presume that the Pathfinder Society Scenarios use the same layout too, so all those Caps-lookin'-things are also a font/style?
"font-variant: small-caps" in CSS. I think they look nice if done in reasonable amounts.
Correct.
In fact... for me, it's preferable to get in a manuscript with absolutely NO formatting as opposed to one that attempts to mimic our styles without actually using the styles. We generally supply our writers with blank documents that have our styles built in... all outlines we provide have them as well. But if you're not comfortable working with styles in MS Word, it's probably better to just write without any formatting at all. (Bold face and italics are usually fine, though.)
Well, at least I found out before I sent in my submission. Thanks, east coast snowstorm! A-relayoutin' I will go.
Thanks for the heads-up guys.
We generally supply our writers with blank documents that have our styles built in... all outlines we provide have them as well.
Thankfully. The first time Sean started talking about H1 headers I thought he wanted me to get a flu shot...