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diff --git a/STYLE_GUIDE b/STYLE_GUIDE
index 09b45df..491794c 100644
--- a/STYLE_GUIDE
+++ b/STYLE_GUIDE
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ Watch out for the ampersand "&" and angle brackets "<" and ">". They will
 render your XHTML invalid, and must be replaced by their named entities
 "&amp;", "&lt;", and "&gt;".
 
+Keep line lengths within 108 characters so that additions or changes are easy to view in github pull requests.
+Code examples that are supposed to be all one line are an exception in which case the <pre></pre> tag should be
+used to to tell the browser to display the code as one line.
 
 3. Custom classes
 =================
@@ -120,7 +123,7 @@ signal to the build system that it is an internal link that needs to be fixed
 so that it points to the correct URL.
 
 
-4.1 Inline markups
+4.2 Inline markups
 ------------------
 
 <dfn>
@@ -156,7 +159,7 @@ spacing of sections. If you're unhappy with those, fix the CSS (which fixes the
 entire manual in one go!).
 
 
-4.2 Lists
+4.3 Lists
 ---------
 
 <ul>, <ol>
@@ -170,7 +173,7 @@ Definition lists are for technical terms <dt> and their definition <dd>. Do
 not abuse them for anything else.
 
 
-4.3 Quotations
+4.4 Quotations
 --------------
 
 <blockquote>
@@ -182,7 +185,7 @@ For inline citations, the <cite>W3C</cite> recommends to <q cite="http://
 www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html">use the cite and q elements</q>.
 
 
-4.4 Keyboard/Controller interaction
+4.5 Keyboard/Controller interaction
 -----------------------------------
 
 <kbd>
@@ -237,7 +240,7 @@ is only used for the textual output of any code, never for anything the user
 types or presses.
 
 
-4.5 Images
+4.6 Images
 ----------
 
 <img>
@@ -260,7 +263,7 @@ inside as well to describe to the reader what the image is.
 
 * Avoid any typographical quotation marks to highlight terms or express any
   kind of subtle inflection, use semantic markup instead.
-* The hyphen is used to for compound words such as this well-advised example.
+* The hyphen is used for compound words such as this well-advised example.
 * Do not hyphenate words at line breaks.
 * For breaks in thought&mdash;such as this splendid example&mdash;use the long
   em-dash. Note that the em-dash is snugged up against the text on both