v1.4.2

Economist-style editing skill for Claude Code.

Highlights since v1.2.0:

• Rules corrected against the official Economist Style Guide (11th ed.): one-to-ten spell-out, month-first dates (January 1st 2025), no serial comma, double quotation marks, co-operate/co-ordinate hyphenation, singular collective nouns, sentence-case headlines
• New ECONOMIST-SIGNATURE.md one-page house-style quick reference, loaded first
• New WORDS.md A-Z of ~40 usage rulings (aggravate, decimate, refute, unique...)
• Honorifics convention (Mr/Ms + surname after first mention) and a cliches check
• Orwell's six elementary rules in SKILL.md
• Non-affiliation disclaimers; discoverability metadata

Install:

/plugin marketplace add TAJD/economist-style-guide-plugin
/plugin install economist-style@economist-style-plugins

v1.2.0: Comprehensive Style Guide Expansion

What's New

Seven new reference files covering missing Economist style guide aspects:

File	Coverage
PUNCTUATION.md	Commas, semicolons, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens
NUMBERS.md	When to spell out, percentages, dates, currency
STRUCTURE.md	Paragraphs, leads, transitions, conclusions
TONE.md	Voice, register, adjective/adverb restraint
ABBREVIATIONS.md	Acronyms, Latin terms, no-full-stops rule
CAPITALIZATION.md	Job titles, institutions, geographic terms
SPECIAL-CONTEXTS.md	Foreign words, quotations, lists, citations

Updated

• COMMON-ERRORS.md: Gender-neutral language, sensitivity and inclusive language guidance
• SKILL.md: Workflow steps 7-13 referencing new files

Verified

All content reviewed against The Economist Style Guide sources.

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