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Editorial Style Sheet Builder
An editorial style sheet records the spelling, capitalisation and hyphenation calls for one manuscript.
Input
Reports observed spelling, capitalisation, hyphenation and quote-style variants; it does not rewrite the manuscript.What is an editorial style sheet?
An editorial style sheet is the record a copyeditor keeps while working through a manuscript: every spelling, capitalisation, hyphenation and quote-style decision made for this book, so that the same word is not set two ways in chapter 2 and chapter 9. It is not a CSS stylesheet and it is not a house style guide.
A style guide is written before the work and applies to everything a publisher issues. A style sheet is written during the work and applies to one manuscript, including the words peculiar to it — invented names, technical terms, a character who spells her own name oddly. It travels with the pages to the proofreader, and it is what the author is asked to check before typesetting.
This builder reads your manuscript and reports the decisions it can already see you making, including the ones you are making inconsistently. It reports; it never rewrites. Entries it cannot observe — names, invented terms, house preferences — you add by hand.
Style sheet example
Each entry records a decision and the evidence for it, so a later reader can follow the choice instead of re-making it.
Four entries from a built style sheet, exactly as the tool emits them:
## Spelling - Prefer **organise** over organize — Mixed usage: organize (4) and organise (37). ## Hyphenation - Prefer **decision-making** over decision making — Hyphenated and closed forms both appear. ## Capitalisation - Prefer **Board** over board — Multiple capitalisation forms appear in the manuscript. ## Punctuation - Prefer **curly double quotes** over straight double quotes — Mixed quote styles: 812 curly marks and 6 straight marks.
Details
Editorial Style Sheet Builder details
See the accepted inputs, generated output, and important limits.| Topic | Details | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Input | StyleSheet | The chosen tool accepts only the fields or file type shown above. |
| Processing | Deterministic construction; no AI model call | The artifact is calculated or assembled from the supplied values. |
| Free output | Copyable editorial style sheet. | This is the complete attributed output available without an account. |
| Product continuation | Folio keeps every chapter in one revisable book workspace, so the style decisions can be checked while the manuscript is reviewed as a whole. | The product argument follows the completed free result and describes the authored workflow that continues this job. |
Do I need an account to use Editorial Style Sheet Builder?
No. The public tool runs without an account.
Does this builder call an AI model?
No. It uses deterministic parsing, calculation, and rendering.
Is my input stored?
No. The public tool does not save the submitted input.
What does the paid product add?
Folio keeps every chapter in one revisable book workspace, so the style decisions can be checked while the manuscript is reviewed as a whole.
What is a style sheet in editing?
The running record of the editorial decisions made for one manuscript — spellings, capitalisation, hyphenation, quote style, and the names and terms peculiar to that book. It is handed on with the pages so the proofreader and the typesetter apply the same choices the copyeditor made.
What goes on a style sheet?
Preferred spellings and their rejected variants, capitalisation choices, hyphenated versus closed compounds, quote and punctuation style, number and date treatment, and a list of proper nouns and invented terms with their agreed forms. This builder fills the first four from your manuscript; the names and house preferences you add.