Personal Style Guides & Publishing Rules

Air-Gapped Editorial Standards & Automated Manuscript Quality Engine

Editorial Engine v2.0 CMOS 18th & RAE Ready
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.

CMOS 18th RAE / ASALE Show-Don't-Tell
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.

Live Sandbox Zero-Risk Audit Visual Diff
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.

Voice Safeguard Granular Toggles Non-Destructive
🇺🇸 CMOS 18th (English) 🇪🇸 Pan-Hispanic RAE (Spanish) 🇫🇷 French Lexique Imprimerie 🇩🇪 German Duden Standards 🇮🇹 Italian Crusca & Treccani 🇵🇹 Portuguese AOLP Standards 🇨🇳 Chinese GB/T 15834 Standards 🇯🇵 Japanese Bungei Hon-no-Zukuri ✍️ Universal Fiction Craft
One-Click Publishing Preset Kits

Instantly activate press-standard editorial rule bundles for all 8 supported publishing languages or universal fiction craft.

9 Active 0 Disabled 9 Total Rules
🇺🇸 English Literary Standard 6 Rules
Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS 18th)
Language Scope
Applies To: English Manuscripts & English Facing Pages

Authoritative American publishing press standards: directional adverbs, serial Oxford commas, unspaced em dashes, and dialogue quote period placement.

CMOS 18th: 'Toward' over 'Towards' CMOS 18th: 'Backward' over 'Backwards' CMOS 18th: Oxford / Serial Comma in Triad Lists +3 more rules
🇪🇸 Pan-Hispanic Standard 6 Rules
Pan-Hispanic Publishing (RAE & ASALE)
Language Scope
Applies To: Spanish Manuscripts & Spanish Facing Pages

Official Real Academia Española and ASALE literary standards: raya de diálogo unida, acotaciones del narrador, opening ¿ / ¡ marks, and period placement.

RAE / ASALE: Raya de Diálogo sin Espacio Inicial RAE / ASALE: Inciso Narrativo con Rayas Cerradas RAE / ASALE: Signo de Apertura Interrogativo (¿) +3 more rules
🇫🇷 French Imprimerie Standard 5 Rules
French Publishing & Typography (Lexique / Académie)
Language Scope
Applies To: French Manuscripts & French Facing Pages

Lexique des règles typographiques (Imprimerie Nationale) & Académie Française: guillemets avec espaces insécables, ponctuation haute, tiret cadratin, et ligatures œ.

French Typography: Guillemets Français avec Espaces ( « » ) French Typography: Espace avant Ponctuation Haute (: ; ! ?) French Typography: Tiret Cadratin de Dialogue (—) +2 more rules
🇩🇪 German Duden Standard 5 Rules
German Duden & Rechtschreibung Standards
Language Scope
Applies To: German Manuscripts & German Facing Pages

Authoritative German publishing rules (Duden & Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung): typografische Gänsefüßchen („ “), Gedankenstrich ( – ), and reform orthography.

German Typography: Gänsefüßchen Anführungszeichen („ “) German Typography: Gedankenstrich mit Spatium ( – ) German Orthography: 'dass' nach neuer Rechtschreibung +2 more rules
🇮🇹 Italian Crusca Standard 5 Rules
Italian Accademia della Crusca & Treccani Standards
Language Scope
Applies To: Italian Manuscripts & Italian Facing Pages

Authoritative Italian editorial standards (Accademia della Crusca): caporali per dialogo diretto («...»), D eufonica limitata, elisione corretta, and external period placement.

Italian Typography: Virgolette Caporali per Dialogo (« ») Italian Style: D Eufonica Ristretta a Vocale Identica Italian Punctuation: Punto Fermo Esterno alle Caporali +2 more rules
🇵🇹 Portuguese AOLP Standard 5 Rules
Portuguese AOLP Publishing Standards (ABL & ACL)
Language Scope
Applies To: Portuguese Manuscripts & Portuguese Facing Pages

Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (AOLP / ABL & ACL): travessão de diálogo (—), supressão de consoantes mudas, extinção do trema, and vocative comma.

Portuguese Typography: Travessão de Diálogo Espaçado (—) Portuguese AOLP: Supressão de Consoantes Mudas (ação, ótimo) Portuguese AOLP: Extinção do Trema (linguiça, cinquenta) +2 more rules
🇨🇳 Chinese GB/T Standard 5 Rules
Chinese Publishing Standards (GB/T 15834-2011)
Language Scope
Applies To: Chinese Manuscripts & Chinese Facing Pages

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.

Chinese Typography: Fullwidth Punctuation (全角逗号与句号) Chinese Typography: Double Quotation Marks (双引号 “ ”) Chinese Typography: Book Title Marks (书名号 《》) +2 more rules
🇯🇵 Japanese Bungei Standard 5 Rules
Japanese Bungei Hon-no-Zukuri Standards (JIS X 4051)
Language Scope
Applies To: Japanese Manuscripts & Japanese Facing Pages

Japanese book publishing and typesetting rules (JIS X 4051 & Bungeishunju): kagikakko dialogue quotes (「」), futa-kagikakko (『』), Japanese fullwidth punctuation (、。), and two-dot ellipsis (……).

Japanese Typography: Kagikakko Dialogue Quotes (鉤括弧 「」) Japanese Typography: Nested Futa-Kagikakko (二重鉤括弧 『』) Japanese Typography: Fullwidth Punctuation (句読点 、。) +2 more rules
✍️ Universal Literary Craft 5 Rules
Fiction Craft: Show-Don't-Tell & Prose Polish
Language Scope
Applies To: Universal / All Manuscripts (Any Language)

Master prose craftsmanship for creative fiction: eliminates narrative lag, filters out 'suddenly' and redundant adverbs, and strengthens active sensory immersion across all manuscripts.

Fiction Craft: Eliminate 'Suddenly' Cliché Fiction Craft: Filter Verb 'Started to' Fiction Craft: Filter Verb 'Began to' +2 more rules
Interactive Rule Tester Workbench

Paste sample prose to simulate active style rules in real time before processing manuscript chapters.

Click 'Test Active Rules' above to evaluate your sample against enabled style rules...
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.