Stuart Burnfield wrote:
Hi Janice. As far as large companies are concerned, I agree with you. As a contract writer at IBM, I found the style guide, word usage database and other resources a great help and a pleasure to use. I'm sure it would be the same working for Sun. I'm assuming that few of us on this list need to develop a style guide for a large company. We're talking about companies large enough to need one, but small enough not to have one already--possibly dozens/hundreds of contributors, but only a handful of writers and editors.
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In a smallish organisation, it's so hard to get anyone to follow the most basic elements of a template or style guide. Given that, I believe that 50 guidelines (of which ten or so are actually followed) are better than 500 guidelines (of which ten or so are actually followed).
I don't disagree. I was merely pointing out that you need a combination of a reference style guide and your house style. I don't think you could do a sole style guide without backup material of only 50 guidelines. -- Janice ********************************************************** Janice Gelb | The only connection Sun has with janice.gelb@xxxxxxx | this message is the return address ************************************************** To view the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes). To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************