RE: IBM Style Guide online? RESOLVED

["Mike McCallister" <mike -dot- mccallister -at- pkware -dot- com>]

 TechWr-L is indeed amazing! Thanks to Pat Egan, Lin Sims, Mike Starr,
Andrew Warren, Ed (who found a copy at archive.org), and Caroline
Tabach, who shared their copies with me.

FYI: There are two editions floating around, the 6th edition from 2004
and the 7th from 2006. Check your copyright date (on page 2), and email
me if you want the more recent version. 

I'll keep an eye out for a posting of any 8th edition.

Thanks again!

Mike McCallister

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- windstream -dot- net] 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:59 PM
To: Mike McCallister
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: IBM Style Guide online?

Amazing! Every link I can find, even one in the German Wikipedia, goes
the the same useless page. We all just took it for granted, I guess. I
never used it, never more than skimmed it, but took it for granted
regardless.

One reference describes it as being descended directly from the Chicago
Manual of Style. CMOS is always a good tool even if (like the folks at
IBM) you differ with parts of it. Use CMOS as a foundation instead, I
guess, tempered with Microsoft's style manual, and write your own.

Mike McCallister wrote:
> Hi folks,
>  
> At some point or other, IBM made their style guide available at this
> site:
>  
> http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/1387/$File/IBM_Style
> .p
> df
>
<http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/1387/$File/IBM_Style.
> pdf>  
>  
> Today, this link points to the IBM Design group front page, and a site

> search does not prove fruitful.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help  
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info. 

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat