Re: Style Guide for UNIX?

["Janet Swisher" <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

FWIW,

The GNOME Documentation Style Guide says "Do not use commands as
verbs" and "Avoid starting a sentence with a command name or
application name that has a lowercase initial letter".

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/grammar.html.en

(GNOME is a desktop environment for Unix.)



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:25 PM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> However, I don't think it's what you want anyway. I have mione in
> front of me. While it is from SUN, it is OS agnostic...it doesn't
> differenciate. It addresses approaches to different tech writing
> aspects, such as how to arrange callouts, how to index, grammar and
> usage, hypenatioon guidelines, typefaces, punctuation, some project
> management, etc.
>
> If you are looking for how to format command lines and such, I'd
> probably get a good *NIX book and follow the examples.
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>>> It's from Sun. They ONLY do *nix. To include it would be redundant
>>
>> Ah!  Thank you, I did not know that.
>>
>> *adds book to shopping list*



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