Archive:Docs Project Style Guide - Resources

Resources

Useful FLOSS Project Guides

• http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/styleguide.html - GNOME Documentation Style Guide

Other Style Guides

• http://www.ap.org/ - The Associated Press
• http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ - The Chicago Manual of Style
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide - Wikipedia article on style guides

US-English Grammar

• http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerb.asp - The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation provides examples of common difficulties encountered when writing in English. The Table of Contents covers "Who and Whom", "Who vs. Which vs. That" to "Effective Writing". Provides useful and clear examples with memorable tools.

Standards

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 - Wikipedia article on ISO-8601, "Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times"
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC - Wikipedia article on Coordinated Universal Time
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix - Wikipedia article on binary prefixes

DocBook

• http://www.docbook.org/ - Documentation for DocBook

Other Resources

• http://www.m-w.com/ - Merriam-Webster Online