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>My company is writing a style guide to standardize the look of documents
that
>are produced by two departments. To reach a consensus on typesetting and
>layout matters, we need to refer to an outside authority. Currently, we
refer
>to some guidelines set up by John McWade in the magazine Before & After.
Can
>anyone recommend a reference that gives guidelines for page layout,
>typesetting, and graphics?
I suggest you contact the appropriate technical society for the area to
which the work relates. The IEEE (Institiute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers) has, I believe, one or more depending on the subject area. These
are generally hard to dispute as they are common accross many companies.
--john
>Victoria Moore
>Manager of Technical Publications
>EDS
>Bozeman, Montana
>victor3129 -at- aol -dot- com
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