I’d like to make a simple suggestion for this and future posts. I note that you say you will continue to use ′ petertodd’ to distinguish from individuals named “Peter Todd”. The leading space, however, is elusive, can cause havok with line breaks, and is very very easy to miss. Might you instead consider _petertodd? Making the space “visible” with a symbolic underscore is much more visually direct, the italics are a well trodden quote replacement in bibliographies & references, and I think this tactic communicates the concept (of non-human identification, but rather token representation) more effectively. Good stuff, Matthew. Keep it up!
I’d like to make a simple suggestion for this and future posts. I note that you say you will continue to use ′ petertodd’ to distinguish from individuals named “Peter Todd”. The leading space, however, is elusive, can cause havok with line breaks, and is very very easy to miss. Might you instead consider _petertodd? Making the space “visible” with a symbolic underscore is much more visually direct, the italics are a well trodden quote replacement in bibliographies & references, and I think this tactic communicates the concept (of non-human identification, but rather token representation) more effectively. Good stuff, Matthew. Keep it up!