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Re: Using document conventions from the MS Manual of Style
Subject:Re: Using document conventions from the MS Manual of Style From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- CORP -dot- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Jan 1998 13:37:16 -0800
>>Kathy asked:
>>Is it [computer] industry standard to use the document conventions, menu
>>terminology and style, etc., as described in the MS Manual of Style?
>
>We used the MS guide as a base, and made some variations in wording and
>formatting. For example, the MS guide uses small caps for key names; we
>don't. We also use bold a lot less. However, it's a pretty sound style guide
>overall, so we ended up using most of their conventions.
>
>We also found it worthwhile to create our own document, a sort of subset. For
>example, they include a lot of terminology about how to document text
>formatting. Our product doesn't ever involve text formatting, so we took that
>stuff out. There is also a lot of information on such things as indexing and
>internationalization, which is all well and good, but the style guide we
>needed was something more limited, more along the lines of "how do I format a
>checkbox name?"
>
>- Scott Miller
>smiller -at- portal -dot- com
