Re: GNOME Documentation Style Guide
- From: "Rebecca J. Walter" <rjp mail tele dk>
- Cc: gnome-doc-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GNOME Documentation Style Guide
- Date: 09 Jul 2001 15:12:03 +0200
On 03 Jul 2001 16:16:08 -0500, eliot landrum wrote:
> This has always been a source of frustration for me for many years. I
> dug out my /Elements of Style/ by Strunk and White and searched through
> it for something definitive in this matter. Unfortunatly, I found
> nothing. I guess they never thought much about technical writing. Does
> anyone have a more recent version than my 1979 edition?
>
> Perhaps we should just make characters up like many cryptography
> documentation authors have been doing. Then we can make our docs like a
> novel. ;)
>
> I really should read /Elements of Style/ all the way through. It is a
> gold mine!
>
> I suppose I really had nothing good to contribute to this conversation.
> *shrug*
Brand new chicago manual of style and it doesnt say either.
i REALLY need to read it cover to cover...
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