Anybody who's read or skimmed around in this (I haven't had a chance to yet) have informed commentary on the differences between this edition and the current CMOS?
Yeah, I also don't have time to rad the whole thing but even just the first few pages are fun, for example:
Rule 21 assumes there is precisely one religion (not zero and not more than one) and it is christianity (there, I broke rule 9). In fact religion seems to get a lot of mention.
Rule 30 includes capitalization rules for Greek and Latin (which BTW are different from the Greek rules for ancient Greek I leaned in school) as well as French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, German, Danish and Dutch.
And yet, right in the front they capitalize "the Press" which doesn't seem, on a quick skim, to have been covered in their own capitalization rules!
Unicode should take up these kinds of rules. At least in some languages like French, they are well encoded, and in others, like German, are actually specified by international treaty!
There are many differences, but the aside from usage the main difference is that current edition covers guidelines for electronic publications. The preface to the current edition is available online:
