Re: GNOME Documentation Style Guide



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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