discuss: proposed outline: Author Guide
Subject:
Re: proposed outline: Author Guide
From:
Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date:
8 Jul 2003 22:15:00 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307082105560.20967-100000@caxton.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> which
> spelling of "catalog"/"catalogue" you're going to use -- is there a manual
> of style that you use for co-authored documents such as this?
> e.g. Chicago Manual of Style?).
This will always be a moot point.
British and British-influenced authors will always use OED spellings;
Hart's Rules (ISBN 0-19-212983-X); and Judith Butcher's Copy-Editing
(ISBN 0-521-25638-0).
Likewise the Chicago Manual of Style will always be used by American and
American-influenced authors.
I agree however that any document should be internally consistent.
[And I also concede that many non-specialist writers -- e.g. coders --
simply haven't a clue which usage they employ; and moreover seem to not
care!]
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