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Subject:Style Guide List Compiler? From:Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 May 1995 10:21:00 PDT
Techwhirlers;
Some time ago I clipped this chunk of info from someone's forward to the
list. Does anyone know the name and e-mail of the original compiler?
Thanks, Greg
Gregory Keith
Documentation Specialist
Delrina Canada
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com
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PLATFORM-SPECIFIC STYLE GUIDES
1. Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines. Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992. ISBN 0-201-62216-5. There is an
interactive animated companion CD-ROM to these Mac guidelines called "Making
it Macintosh", Addison-Wesley, 1993. ISBN 0-201-62626-8.
2. Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Amiga User Interface Style Guide. Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-57757-7.
3. GO Corporation. PenPoint User Interface Design Reference. Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN 0-201-60858-8.
4. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sunsoft Inc. & USL. Common Desktop Environment:
Functional Specification (Preliminary Draft). X/Open Company Ltd., 1993.
ISBN 1-85912-001-6. Available via ftp from ftp
XOPEN.CO.UK/pub/cdespec1/cde1_ps.Z
5. IBM. Object-Oriented Interface Design: IBM Common User Access
Guidelines. Carmel, Indiana: Que, 1992. ISBN 1-56529-170-0.
6. James Martin, Kathleen Kavanagh Chapman & Joe Leben. Systems Application
Architecture: Common User Access. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1991. ISBN 0-13-785023-9.
7. Microsoft Corporation. The GUI Guide: International Terminology for the
Windows Interface. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55615-538-7.
8. Microsoft Corporation. The Windows Interface: An Application Design
Guide. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55615-384-8.
9. Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif Style Guide. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1993. ISBN 0-13-643123-2.
10. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXTSTEP User Interface Guidelines (Release 3).
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-201-63250-0.
11. Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Application
Style Guidelines. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN
0-201-52364-7.
12. Sun Microsystems, Inc. OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface Functional
Specification. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-52365-5.
