Re: Style Guides

Subject: Re: Style Guides
From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:18:25 -0800

Hmmmm.... I've been sitting on potential entries for our company style
guide for a year and a half. Seeing some samples of others' company guides
would be useful in an effort to finally produce somthing tangible.

> Chris

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, TECHWR-L Administrator
<admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com>wrote:

>
> Heather,
> Great question! I just promoted an article on this very
> topic to the TECHWR-L home page at http://www.techwr-l.com/ .
> Thanks for the prod.
> Eric
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Heather Anderson wrote:
>
> > Good morning everyone!
> >
> > I have been tasked to create a style guide for my company.
> >
> > I was curious if people used them or if they simply used the Chicago
> Manual of Style for their documentation?
> >
> > I was hoping to make a simple, quick style guide that covered fonts,
> formats, and template usage.
> >
> > Does anyone have any examples or any other information I should include?
> I am not sure if I should create a usage section with frequently misused
> words.
> >
> > I've used style guides in the past, but this is my first time creating
> them.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ~ Heather Anderson
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