[FM Discuss] Canonical writing conventions (was: CommandLineIntro/WritingConventions)

[adam hyde]

looks good! :)

i dont know however if we need to refer all contributors to this
material, as some feel encumbered by rules...best to point those that
want to know at it and leave the rest to find it/ask for it when they
are ready

adam

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 08:12 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> The thread on the Command Line Intro was worthwhile to show that we
>  need to pull together our conventions and have a repeated (and
>  expandable) set. When I edited and contributed to the Book Sprint
>  manual, I created a set of conventions that I thought would work well
>  for most of our books:
> 
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/BookSprints/WritingConventions
> 
> We could keep this page up to date and refer all authors to it. I
>  copied the conventions to the Command Line Intro conventions and added
>  a few more that I thought were appropriate for technical books. We can
>  continue to discuss and change them.
> 
> Andy
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