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Subject:Re: Style Guides, Take II From:Sharon Burton-Hardin <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 20 Dec 1998 08:56:55 -0800
It is indeed much easier than writing your own. Getting consensus about the
kind of coffee in the pot is difficult. Getting everyone to agree on what to
call a menu is, well impossible.
Of course I don't advocate using the MS standard where it clearly is not
appropriate. But I do think that it is appropriate in more places that you
think. Another tool in my bag. And when a client does not have a style guide
and all writers are writing what they want and how they want it, it is not a
bad one to start with.
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
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And then, like, Robyn M. Nace went:
>Ah! But the problem is, MS uses Windows 95 terminology to talk about
>everything. They redefined "industry" style with the release of 95. So,
>a lot of the terms that MS uses don't make sense for other operating
>systems. I've written two Style Guides, and I've used portions of the MS
>Manual of Style as a basis, but none of their terminology or actions.
>
