Handling software titles in text and a funny

["Paula Puffer" <pap -at- binkleybarfield -dot- com>]

Hi all:

I've looked in the archives and didn't find an answer about handling
software titles in the text. 

I'm working at an engineering firm that has never had a tech writer
previously. In a recent proposal, there was a listing of software
titles that we use (e.g, AutoCAD, GEOPAK). I didn't italicize based on
what 
I found in my Chicago Manual of Style, however the marketing person
thought they should be italicized based on her college composition
handbook. 

How are you handling software titles in text? I don't care how I have to
do 
it as long as its done consistently and can explain it to my boss. *LOL*
I had to define what "STET" meant (means let it stand) to a man who told
the secretary that it means "Stop Editing Today!"   

Paula Puffer
Technical Writer
Binkley & Barfield, Inc.
pap -at- binkleybarfield -dot- com



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