Re: Disagreeing with house styles

[Sion Lane <slane -at- ubq -dot- thrupoint -dot- net>]

Excellent link Phil, thanks.

There's a new edition of the Microsoft Manual of Style due at the end of
January, would be interesting to see if this has changed.

Common usage is definitely the concatenated version.

On 5 January 2012 15:40, Phil Snow Leopard <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>wrote:

> Oh, 'voicemail' too is one word for Apple documenters.
>
> Incidentally, for anyone interested, the 200+ page Apple style guide is
> available free online:
>
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/APStyleGuide/APSG_2009.pdf
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> Phil
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> On 5 Jan 2012, at 22:33, Phil Snow Leopard wrote:
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> > But not so the Apple style guide, which treats 'website' as one word.
> >
> > Always been a bit forward thinking though, those Apple types... ;-)
> >
> >
> > On 5 Jan 2012, at 22:22, Julie Stickler wrote:
> >
> >> And FYI, your house style guide agrees with the Microsoft Manual of
> >> Style, which is one of the major Style Guides available in our
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