Re: A tech editor seeks advice on which style guide to adopt

[praneeta p <praneeta_paradkar -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

The version I have on my desktop is most probably outdated. I'll have to check.
 
Now, as for the decision with the style guide: I am now armed with more options than what I started out with.
 
I have to evaluate these four:

IBM Style Guide
Apple
Sun's
MSTP
I am leaving Chicago Manual and Ap out of the race as I want something specific to information technology.
 
I'll keep you posted. Will probably proceed from here to do a SWOT analysis of each style guide.
 
I promise to share my experience of how it goes.
 
Till then, thanks for all your inputs. Appreciated.
 
Back to researching and more searching!

--- On Thu, 24/9/09, quills -at- airmail -dot- net <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> wrote:


From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
Subject: Re: A tech editor seeks advice on which style guide to adopt
To: "Kat Kuvinka" <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Cc: praneeta_paradkar -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thursday, 24 September, 2009, 12:58 AM


I still haven't found a good link to that document. Every link I find leads to either a page no longer in use, or to a listing that has no mention of the IBM Style Guide. It's become like a unicorn. Mythical, unseen, and wonderous.

Kat Kuvinka wrote:
>  
>  
> I used to use MSTP, but thanks to some folks on this list I adopted the IBM Style Guide, free and easily available! 
> 
>  
>> Hi All,
>>  Recently, in one of our doc team meetings, my manager asked me to come to a formal decision on which style guide we should adopt as the bible for our team. And as it goes with managers, I have to justify my decision.
>>  So far, the writers have been using MSTP (Microsoft Style for Technical Publications) for two reasons:
>>  1. It is easily available.
>> 2. and free.
>>  I rather like Sun's Read Me First. The rationale appeals to me. The recommendations in their sound like recommendations and are less dictatorial than the MSTP.
>>  I would like to know which style guide would be best for web-based applications?  Is MSTP really only for Windows-based apps or can it be adopted for web-based apps too?
>>  Which style guide (Sun's or MSTP) is likely to be adopted easily by the writers? That is not to say that I will take the path of least resistance if one or the other wins in merit versus ease of adoption.
>>  Kindly advise.
>> 
>> Best always,
>>  Praneeta Paradkar
>> 
> 



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