Re: Style guides?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Beware the temptation to load up on style guide books.  At one
of my previous companies, the corporate style was managed by
an editor whose ideas about style were, to say the least, "unique."
And no matter what question was raised about his formats, he
was able to pull an "authoritative source" off a bookshelf to
"support" it (he had about a dozen "authoritative sources", many 
of which often contradicted each other on a given issue).  The
resulting template, needless to say, was a hopeless morass of 
conflicting elements.

My advice:  pick one or two you like, stick with them in the
face of other "sources," but don't be afraid to violate them if 
common sense tells you something else is called for.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa C. Boyd" <lisab -at- lisaboyd -dot- com>