RE: Style guides for online help/writing

["Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>]

The best for tech writing for software help Microsoft Style Manual Third
Edition
To buy : 
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/6074.aspx

Used to be downloadable as  a chm , but now no more.
i think its illegal to host it now i think. 

Search on Google you might find a pdf version of it.
http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/TC407/MSTP-V3.pdf




-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Burnfield [mailto:slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:08 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Style guides for online help/writing

Letting Go of the Words
Writing Web Content that Works

Janice (Ginny) Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc.
Published 2007 / 365 pages
Soft cover : 978-0-12-369486

You can see the TOC and a couple of sample chapters at:
http://www.redish.net/writingfortheweb/

It's about writing web content in general, not specifically online docs,
but it's well worth a read. It's certainly more recent than the Hackos
book (1997).

I haven't read "Is the Help Helpful? How to Create Online Help That
Meets Your Users' Needs" by Jean Hollis Weber, but it looks like it
covers useful ground.

Stuart

 > Can someone point me to *recent* online style guides for  > writing
online help and online documentation?

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