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The docs index said "3 of 9 written" and put a pink UNWRITTEN badge
beside two thirds of the style handbook. It now says 9 of 9.

The six were fourteen-line placeholders reading "Yet to be written" —
and they were the pages the written ones link into. Following "see
[Dashes]" from the colons page landed a reader on a placeholder.

Page was now
capitalization 14 100
code-in-text 18 92
code-samples 14 84
dashes 14 116
lists 14 77
people-person-first-language 17 81

Provenance

These are OpenINF's own writing, so none carries the google flag that
makes the page footer assert "Portions of this page are reproduced from
work shared by Google under CC BY 4.0"
. colons.md and
code-syntax.md keep theirs; these sit alongside commit-messages.md,
which is also original.

Composing the text and then crediting Google would be a false
provenance claim, and a handbook is the wrong place to make one.

What they say

Written from what this project already does, checked against the
repository rather than invented:

  • capitalization — page titles in title case, section headings in
    sentence case, which is what OpenINF's own pages already do; the
    title-case headings elsewhere all come from Google-derived or synced
    files. It also writes down a rule the project had but had never
    stated: the name is OpenINF, never OPENINF, in headings, in
    navigation, or in the footer.
  • code-in-text — what goes in code font, with the trailing-period
    rule; and <var> placeholders, pointing at code-syntax for the
    command-line notation.
  • code-samples — introductions that say what a sample does rather
    than that it exists, and the <span class="prompt"> convention this
    site already uses, which is user-select: none so copying a line
    leaves the $ behind.
  • dashes — hyphen, en dash, em dash, and a ## Colons section
    answering the question colons.md sends readers here for.
  • lists — complete-sentence introductions, punctuation by item
    type, when to number.
  • people-person-first-language — follow the community's stated
    preference; the Deaf community as the clearest case where
    identity-first is right, including what the capital D distinguishes.
    This fills in the editorial note the stub carried.

Checked

  • nps test — all verify tasks pass.
  • Every anchor another page links to still resolves in the built HTML:
    #capitalization-in-headings, #explaining-placeholders,
    #some-specific-items-to-put-in-code-font, #intros on both
    code-samples and lists, and #colons on dashes.
  • The docs index reports 9 of 9 written with zero rule-unwritten
    badges.
  • Examples render through the existing .example contract — one
    compare-better or compare-worse per paragraph, :has() coloring
    the rule teal or red. Confirmed in the browser.

retext-simplify runs over these and objected eight times to the first
draft — minimum for least, modify for change, it appears for
seems. A handbook that fails the plain-language check it asks others
to pass has picked the wrong argument, so the prose gave way. abled
joins project-terms.txt; the euphemism is named in order to advise
against it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added comprehensive style guidance for capitalization, code formatting, code samples, dashes, lists, and person-first language.
    • Included practical examples, punctuation rules, accessibility-conscious language recommendations, and guidance for presenting commands and placeholders.
    • Added the term “abled” to the project terminology reference.

The docs index said "3 of 9 written" and put a badge reading UNWRITTEN
beside two thirds of the handbook. The six were fourteen-line
placeholders saying the page was yet to be written, and they were the
pages the written ones link into: a reader following "see Dashes" from
the colons page arrived at "Yet to be written."

They are OpenINF's own writing rather than adapted from anyone, so
none carries the `google` flag that makes the footer credit a source.
Composing the text and then attributing it to Google would be a false
provenance claim, and on a handbook about accuracy it would be the
wrong page to make one on.

Each keeps the heading another page anchors to, so every existing
cross-reference lands where it did. `capitalization` states the rule
that the project's name is never set in capitals, which is a rule this
project already had and had never written down.

`retext-simplify` runs over these, and it objected eight times to my
first draft -- `minimum` for `least`, `modify` for `change`, `it
appears` for `seems`. A handbook that fails the plain-language check
it asks others to pass has picked the wrong argument, so the prose
gives way. `abled` joins the dictionary; the euphemism is named in
order to advise against it.

Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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The PR replaces six placeholder handbook pages with guidance for prose, punctuation, code, code samples, lists, and inclusive language. It also adds abled to the project terms list.

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Handbook style guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prose and punctuation rules
collections/_docs/handbook/style/capitalization.md, collections/_docs/handbook/style/dashes.md, collections/_docs/handbook/style/lists.md
The pages now define capitalization, dash and colon usage, list structure, punctuation, ordering, and nesting rules with examples.
Code text and sample rules
collections/_docs/handbook/style/code-in-text.md, collections/_docs/handbook/style/code-samples.md
The pages now explain code-font usage, placeholders, command prompts, runnable samples, output, line wrapping, and command syntax references.
Inclusive language terminology
collections/_docs/handbook/style/people-person-first-language.md, project-terms.txt
The language page now covers person-first and identity-first terminology, community preferences, and Deaf and autistic communities. The terms list adds abled.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 499aa

This PR expands six handbook pages and updates related terminology without introducing an actionable merge-blocking risk; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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In `@collections/_docs/handbook/style/capitalization.md`:
- Around line 45-46: Correct the capitalization guidance for OpenINF so it
states that “Open” has one initial capital and “INF” has three trailing
capitals, with no other capitals.

In `@collections/_docs/handbook/style/code-samples.md`:
- Around line 55-57: Reconcile the handbook prompt guidance between the
code-sample rules and code-syntax guidance so multi-line command-only samples
have one consistent treatment of the “$” prompt. Update the relevant wording to
establish a single rule for authors while preserving the distinction between
typed input and output.

In `@collections/_docs/handbook/style/people-person-first-language.md`:
- Line 36: Revise the absolute wording in the person-first language guidance,
including the statements around “the wrong choice,” “anyone,” and “never,” to
acknowledge that community conventions may differ while preserving each person’s
stated self-description as the deciding preference. Apply the same qualification
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`Open` has one capital, not two. Writing otherwise on the page that
teaches capitalization taught the wrong spelling in the sentence that
existed to teach the right one.

The prompt rule belonged to `code-syntax`, which already says a `$`
goes on every line of a multi-line input. `code-samples` issued a
rival rule saying to leave it off, and an author following the
handbook would have found it disagreeing with itself. The section
defers now, and the reason it can is that this site's prompt is
`user-select: none`, so showing one costs a reader nothing to copy
around.

The page on naming people said to follow the community's preference
and a person's own words, then overrode both three times: person-first
was "the wrong choice", a euphemism was "not what anyone calls
themselves", a noun was to be used "never". Each is now qualified, and
the person being described still decides.

Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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