On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 09:35, DaveP wrote: > At 22:16 23/06/2004, Karsten Wade wrote: > > > >As do many organizations, we rely upon the classic "The Chicago Manual > >of Style" > > > Which is very US centric I'm told? Is that right Karsten? Yes, it's the definitive guide to style for American English. However, this is style _not_ prose, so is mainly about font size, header usage, layout, i.e., presentation. In looking around how others use TCMoS, it's almost like a hand-wave -- you're really saying, "We rely upon this standard of typography and presentation." Just like the DTD called in the XML header, one is welcome to delve further to understand everything, just as one is welcome to accept the hand-wave and move on. After all, this is DocBook, style is not really the point, that's taken care of in the XSL and CSS. :) Proper tagging will be associated with a style that is, de facto, based on TCMoS. Okay, so how does this address Paul's question of prose style, grammar, and so forth? Apparently, the 15th edition of TCMoS has a new section on grammar, but I think relying upon The Elements of Style is easier and better. Adopting TEoS as a standard for Fedora docs is a good idea. Even if we choose not to freely distribute TEoS, we can certainly reference it. Here's a proposal -- let's research various online writing guides that are public domain or covered by a license such as the FDL or Creative Commons, allowing us to adopt and modify (fork) for our own usage. See if we can achieve 70% of our goal the free software way. :) - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer this .signature subject to random changes http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
