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Re: Style Guide

Subject: Re: Style Guide
From: Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:52:07 +1000


Start here: Developing a departmental style guide,
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/writing/styleguide.html

The software you use to create a style guide is irrelevant. The content of the guide is what matters. You might want to include templates of documents in the software to be used when writing the documents, but that's a different matter.

Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
mailto:jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com
The Technical Editors' Eyrie http://www.jeanweber.com/

At 12:25 PM 26/04/2002 -0400, Tara Salman wrote:

I've decided to create a style guide for my company either after I get
> the training to do page layout or after I've successfully done a manual.
>
> Any advice as to how I should go about it? Primarily concerned with
> organization, length, and which software to do it in. Also, if you have
> any good Web sites, books and examples of style guides, that would be
> much appreciated.



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