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Subject:Re: AW: MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs? From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:19:43 -0800 (PST)
"Jan Henning" <> wrote...
> What would Andrew care about a style guide? As we all know: It's the
> content, stupid!
I would appreciate it, Jan (and others), if you would respectfully stop injecting
my name into arguments as a straw man. I never did it to you, and therefore I
don't see why I can get the same respect.
As for a universal style guide, might I suggest you look into open-source as a
model as a way to draft such a standard.
Andrew Plato
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