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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:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- CYBERPASS -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:40:14 -0800
>When was the Sun book published? It would be great to get a style
>guide that is recent.
Read Me First -- A Style Guide for the Computer Industry by Sun Technical
Publications (Prentice Hall, 1996, 260pp plus CD, ISBN 0-13-455347-0, $29.95)
The book is based on the style guide that won best of show in the 1993
Northern California Technical Communication Competition.
The book won an award this year, but the competition won't announce award
levels until the awards luncheon in February. ...RM
