RE: style questions

["Batsford, Steve" <sbatsford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My two cents.

Everywhere I have worked we always had a style guide of one sort or another. But they always had a statement that basically said that if it isn't covered by the style guide, defer to the Microsoft Manual of Style.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Susie Q
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:01 AM
To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: style questions


Many thanks to all of you who responded! Your feedback is very helpful.
I am a lone writer, and it's nice to be able to bounce these kinds of 
questions
off fellow writers for a change...


>From: "Susie Q" <strct_rookie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
>Subject: style questions
>Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:15:35 -0400
>
>Forgive the not-strictly-on-topic questions, but I wonder how other
>writers feel about these style choices:
>
>1) referencing chapters, figures, tables using lowercase instead of
>    upper.
>
>    For example:
>
>    see figure 1-5 in chapter 3, Using our Software
>
>    instead of:
>
>   see Figure 1-5 in Chapter 3, Using our Software
>
>2) Using quotation marks to set off a referenced heading, instead
>    of italics.
>
>    For example:
>
>    see "That other section I wrote" for more information
>
>    instead of:
>
>    see _That other section I wrote_ for more infroamtion
>    (where the _section name_ would be in italics)
>
>I'm finding both of these hard on my eyes, and wonder what
>is generally used.
>
>Thanks for any feedback --
>
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