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> The place for committees and standardisation is structure,
> information,
> and possibly process. If the ATA should mandate a style guide should
> Docbook come with one? Should all manuals created using the
> Docbook DTD
> look identical?
Eric,
I'm not saying these standardization bodies *should* mandate a specific
formatting of page-oriented publications, but if they *do* anyway - as
AECMA does in the Spec 1000D - shouldn't it be *better*? Ofcourse it
should, since the mandated spec of the formatting will be used by the
vendors in lack of their own style guides.
