Re: Microsoft Manual of Style questions

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

On 4/21/2010 6:00 PM, Milan DavidoviÄ wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Jodie Gilmore<jgilmor -at- pacifier -dot- com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi. I do not own a copy of the MS manual of style (shame on me!)
>>      
> If you're on a Windows machine and assuming that Windows Help is
> written according to the Microsoft Style, it shouldn't be too hard to
> find out what MS style is for either of those two points.
>
> That said, has anyone found discrepancies between what shows in
> Windows Help and what's in the MS style guide?
>    

I hate you now.  I had to check a Word document to see if one variant 
would get flagged.  Neither variant was flagged, but Help refers to 
/electronic mail/ as e-mail.  The MST---- <whatever> states, "The third 
edition of MSTP reflects these changes, as well as the general evolution 
and simplification of language: At Microsoft CD-ROM as a general term 
has become CD and blog has entered our vocabulary. E-mail, however, is 
still e-mail."

At least they did not do anything odd with the case, like "e-Mail," 
"E-mail," or "eMail."  However, ebook gets the "treatment," "Use eBook 
with reference to electronic book products. For general references to 
electronic books, use e-book."

Well, there's a minute or two I'll never get back...

Lauren


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