The mission of every editor is to help make the written word clear and readable. The notes assembled here summarize some of the trickier points of style that I've had to address in my work on Access to Insight, plus a few basic matters of style that I always seem to forget. When I extract individual suttas from books, however, I sometimes simplify or remove the footnotes for ease of reading. The original notes are always left intact in the books. Compare, for example, Piyadassi Thera's translation of the Ratana Sutta as it appears in his book The Book of Protection with its appearance as an individual sutta .
Absolute consistency is the goal.
Pick one or the other and stick to it. Mixing up styles distracts the reader. Absolute consistency is not the goal. This website includes texts provided by many different authors and publishers, each of whom has his or her preferred standards of style. The simpler the HTML, the easier it is to develop and manage a large website.