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Subject:Re: A Far Broader Question From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 10 Feb 1997 14:00:34 -0800
At 04:38 PM 2/10/97 -0500, Amy wrote:
>What do folks include in their style guides, anyway? My style guide will
>pertain to printed documentation and online Help.
>
When I wrote the first style guide for my department, I thought I could
limit it to these topics, but it gradually balooned to a policies and
procedures manual as well at the direction of my manager. Eventually I told
him, "Enough already. If I put everything you want on this manual, I would
have to call it "All Previous Thought.'"
--Wayne Douglass
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