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Lint: cathodagraph-terminology

Quotes
error

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:389 · Commas and periods go outside quotation marks (in nearly all circumstances).
Spacing
error

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:456 · 'h.A' should have one space.

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:494 · 'h!L' should have one space.
Exclamation
error

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:459 · Don't use exclamation points in text.
En Dash
error

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:514 · Use a hyphen-minus ('-') instead of an en-dash ('–').
Acronyms
warning

"LINES ON AN X-RAY PORTRAIT OF A LADY"

Line 4:10 · 'ON' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"LINES ON AN X-RAY PORTRAIT OF A LADY"

Line 4:13 · 'AN' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"LINES ON AN X-RAY PORTRAIT OF A LADY"

Line 4:22 · 'PORTRAIT' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"LINES ON AN X-RAY PORTRAIT OF A LADY"

Line 4:31 · 'OF' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.
Commas
suggestion

"In the earliest days of radiology, there was no consensus on the term to be used for the images resulting from exposure to x-rays. Terms used included skiagraph, cathodagraph, roentgenograph, x-ray, x-ray photograph, radiogram, and, of course, radiograph."

Line 2:178 · More than 5 commas in a single sentence might make it more difficult to read.

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:18 · More than 5 commas in a single sentence might make it more difficult to read.
Oxford Comma
suggestion

"She is so tall, so slender, and her bonesThose frail phosphates, those carbonates of limeAre well produced by cathode rays sublime,By oscillations, amperes and by ohmsHer dorsal vertebrae are not concealedBy epidermis, but are well revealedAround her ribs, those beauteous twenty-four,Her flesh a halo makes, misty in line,Her noseless, eyeless face looks into mine,And I but whisper, "Sweetheart, Je t'adore,"Her white and gleaming teeth at me do laugh.Ah! Lovely, cruel, sweet cathodagraph!Lawrence K Russel – Life, 27th March 1896 1"

Line 5:138 · Use the Oxford comma in 'oscillations, amperes and by'.