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I recently (within the last 2 years) left an 11-year gig at AT&T Labs. The
Style Guide that we used was called the Multiweight Design and contained a
series of FrameMaker templates. The style guide is a proprietary document
described as the "official Documentation Architecture containing a set of
standards for the content and format of documentation intended for all
postsale, external-customer documents typically delivered with or in
support of a product or service."
There also was an AT&T EasyLink Documentation Style Guide that was
developed for Consumer Products projects
Frank Rees
Lingua Franca DTP Service
frees -at- patmedia -dot- net
