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Re: Using document conventions from the MS Manual of Style
Subject:Re: Using document conventions from the MS Manual of Style From:"Metzger, Lucinda" <cmetzger -at- DUKANE -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:29:22 -0600
Kathy,
We don't, at least not yet. My co-worker picked up this book a few
months ago, and we keep saying that when we have time, we'll sit down
and go through it and decide what to adopt and what to leave. You
understand, of course, that we will probably have time to do this right
around the time that pigs learn to fly. ;-)
Seriously, though, since the software my company produces is used in
conjunction with Microsoft products, I feel that my docs ought to have
some of the same conventions as the MS docs. I will be interested to
hear what other people are doing.
Cindy
cmetzger -at- dukane -dot- com
>Kathy asked:
>Is it [computer] industry standard to use the document conventions, menu
>terminology and style, etc., as described in the MS Manual of Style?
>Most of my work is software documentation and I've only recently picked
>up the MS Manual. As I read it, all I could think of was, "We don't do
>it that way." Do most TW's follow Microsoft's conventions?
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