Re: Your typographic conventions and justification for

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I don't think there's any such thing as a "Gene Kim-Eng typographic convention" 
that you can use as breadcrumbs to track my movement from company to company 
over the years.

If I'm coming into a new place with established templates and styles, I stick to 
whatever's already in use that hasn't been exploding in peoples' systems or 
causing other problems and devote most of my template time to fixing stuff under 
the hood to make things run smoothly.

If I'm starting with a blank screen in a really new place, the operative rule is 
to keep things simple.  One serif font, one non-serif font, one fixed font for 
code strings, with varying sizes, boldness, italics and colors for same.  I try 
to sync the look and feel of user docs with whatever marketing materials the 
company has successfully used to advance itself to the point where it could 
afford to hire someone to do its technical documentation.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Allison" <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
> I am preparing for a discussion of this issue and wondered what other tech 
> writers do. What do you do, and what reference books or standards do you rely 
> on? Can you recommend any other books or standards for me to take a look at?

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