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Subject:RE: MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs? From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:05:02 -0500
A new MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs, 3rd edition that is, is due out
sometime soon. Hang out and wait for it. Or, use the Sun or Apple style
guides. Besides, the MS MoSfTP 2nd edition was published in '98, a few
things have changed since then.
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From: John Cornellier [mailto:t_w -at- cornellier -dot- com]
MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs is dead. Long live ... what? It's
listed on Amazon as out of print.
I'm looking for a standard reference so that online help modules
developed on different sites can have some common points. Rather than
rewriting a style guide from
scratch I had thought of the above book, but it's defunct. I liked it
because it was fairly comprehensive.
Any suggestions as to what to use?
Perhaps "Microsoft Windows User Experience" plus a style guide like
"Chicago Manual of Style" ?
I'm curious about why MS has dropped this book & whether they intend to
replace it with anything.
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