RE: AW: MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs?

Subject: RE: AW: MS Manual of Style for Tech Pubs?
From: "Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:01:55 -0500


I use the MMoSfTP + Chicago 14 + my own list of exceptions and
clarifications.

Cheers,

Sean

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Sean Brierley
Software Documentation Specialist
Haestad Methods
http://www.haestad.com
203-805-0572 (voice)
203-597-1488 (fax)



-----Original Message-----
From: Marguerite Krupp [mailto:mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com]

Eric Dunn sees an oppportunity for unemployed tech writers in pulling
together a comprehensive, universal manual of style... and it's true it
would fill a need and probably be marketable.

BUT...

Having participated in more than one of these exercises myself, and
speaking
only from my own experience, I have to say that it rapidly becomes a
highly
political exercise. Not only are you talking about corporate image, but
you're talking about changing people's writing styles and meeting users'
expectations.

That's not to say it can't be done, just that it's another of those
ideas
that looks great in theory and that is a real migraine-maker in
practice.


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