discuss: proposed outline: Author Guide
Subject:
Re: proposed outline: Author Guide
From:
Emma Jane Hogbin ####@####.####
Date:
8 Jul 2003 22:24:36 -0000
Message-Id: <20030708222435.GA1544@xtrinsic.com>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:24:00PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > 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?).
>
> 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.
Unless you're Canadian and then you'll probably use some combination of
both. If you're lucky it will be a consistent combination. ;)
emma
When in doubt I default to an American dictionary because it usually uses
shorter words.
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Emma Jane Hogbin
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