Personal Style Guides & Publishing Rules
Air-Gapped Editorial Standards & Automated Manuscript Quality Engine
1. Authoritative Publishing Presets
One-click pre-configured editorial rule kits compliant with Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS 18th), Real Academia Española (RAE / ASALE), and Fiction Show-Don't-Tell literary conventions.
2. Real-Time Interactive Rule Tester
Test regex patterns and substitution rules in an interactive preview sandbox before enforcing them across your manuscripts. Inspect exact matched spans and transformations safely.
3. Non-Destructive Dialect & Voice Guard
Granular per-rule toggling safeguards unique character voices, regional dialects, and vernacular dialogue from heavy-handed automated corrections. You control every rule.
One-Click Publishing Preset Kits
Instantly activate press-standard editorial rule bundles for all 8 supported publishing languages or universal fiction craft.
Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS 18th)
Authoritative American publishing press standards: directional adverbs, serial Oxford commas, unspaced em dashes, and dialogue quote period placement.
Pan-Hispanic Publishing (RAE & ASALE)
Official Real Academia Española and ASALE literary standards: raya de diálogo unida, acotaciones del narrador, opening ¿ / ¡ marks, and period placement.
French Publishing & Typography (Lexique / Académie)
Lexique des règles typographiques (Imprimerie Nationale) & Académie Française: guillemets avec espaces insécables, ponctuation haute, tiret cadratin, et ligatures œ.
German Duden & Rechtschreibung Standards
Authoritative German publishing rules (Duden & Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung): typografische Gänsefüßchen („ “), Gedankenstrich ( – ), and reform orthography.
Italian Accademia della Crusca & Treccani Standards
Authoritative Italian editorial standards (Accademia della Crusca): caporali per dialogo diretto («...»), D eufonica limitata, elisione corretta, and external period placement.
Portuguese AOLP Publishing Standards (ABL & ACL)
Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (AOLP / ABL & ACL): travessão de diálogo (—), supressão de consoantes mudas, extinção do trema, and vocative comma.
Chinese Publishing Standards (GB/T 15834-2011)
National Standard GB/T 15834-2011 (General Rules for Punctuation): fullwidth punctuation (全角标点), book title marks (书名号 《》), enumeration dunhao (顿号 、), and em dashes.
Japanese Bungei Hon-no-Zukuri Standards (JIS X 4051)
Japanese book publishing and typesetting rules (JIS X 4051 & Bungeishunju): kagikakko dialogue quotes (「」), futa-kagikakko (『』), Japanese fullwidth punctuation (、。), and two-dot ellipsis (……).
Fiction Craft: Show-Don't-Tell & Prose Polish
Master prose craftsmanship for creative fiction: eliminates narrative lag, filters out 'suddenly' and redundant adverbs, and strengthens active sensory immersion across all manuscripts.
Interactive Rule Tester Workbench
Paste sample prose to simulate active style rules in real time before processing manuscript chapters.
Configured Style Rules
| Rule Name | Category | Pattern / Flagged Phrase | Preferred Replacement | Description | Status | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avoid double negatives | Semantics |
cannot scarcely
|
can scarcely
|
Flag double negatives like cannot scarcely or not neither | ||
| Oxford Comma Enforcement | Punctuation |
apples, oranges and bananas
|
apples, oranges, and bananas
|
Ensure serial list items have a concluding comma before conjunction | ||
| Spelling of small numerals | Format |
3 cars
|
three cars
|
Spell out single-digit numbers under 10 in narrative prose | ||
| CMOS 18th: 'Toward' over 'Towards' | Style |
\btowards\b
|
toward
|
CMOS 18th specifies 'toward' as the standard American English form over British 'towards'. | ||
| CMOS 18th: 'Backward' over 'Backwards' | Style |
\bbackwards\b
|
backward
|
CMOS specifies directional adverbs without the final -s (backward, upward, downward). | ||
| CMOS 18th: Oxford / Serial Comma in Triad Lists | Punctuation |
(\w+),\s*(\w+)\s+(and|or)\b
|
\1, \2, \3
|
CMOS 6.19 mandates serial comma before concluding coordinating conjunction in lists of 3+ items. | ||
| CMOS 18th: Smart Unspaced Em Dash | Typography |
\s+—\s+|\s+--\s+
|
—
|
CMOS 6.85 specifies unspaced em dashes in running narrative text without flanking spaces. | ||
| CMOS 18th: 'All Right' Standard Form | Spelling |
\balright\b
|
all right
|
CMOS recommends 'all right' in formal and literary narrative over colloquial 'alright'. | ||
| CMOS 18th: Period Inside Dialogue Quotes | Punctuation |
("|\u201d)\.
|
.\1
|
CMOS 6.9 requires periods to precede closing quotation marks in American typographical style. |