Cool, I may have to order these.
> The first book is, I believe, the Sun book we saw in Printer's Inc. The
> second is Microsoft's book. Has anyone worked with either of these books?
Not me, but I'm willing.
> Are there good alternatives I missed? Obviously, right now I'm learning
> towards the Microsoft book, although I guess I could always buy both.
I haven't found any alternatives. Which is why...
> But back to beating up on Adam. Why did you pick the Wired Style book? I
> mean, Wired is a greatly amusing magazine -- I even subscribe to it -- but
> its style is as self-dating as pink-and-black tiled bathrooms or poodle
> skirts or all-white disco outfits or...
I agree that it sucks as a style guide, in the same sense that Wired as
a magazine sometimes sucks. It's the only 1990s-aware (that is,
technology-aware) style guide I knew of up to this point. Maybe Hakon
or Megan or Ari or Kristin or duck knows of a better one?
Better yet, maybe if I apologize to Ann she'll recommend one. Ann, I
completely apologize for blowing everything out of proportion and it was
100% my fault. Please talk to me again? Are there any decent style
guides for technical writing you can recommend?
One great grammar guide I like is Lyn Dupre's _Bugs in Writing_
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0201600196/forkrecommendedrA/
but that is less of a style formatting guide than it is a grammar guide.
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