Hi Chris,
Two style guides are available
one for editing the wiki documentation:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide
and another for editing the oooauthors guides. You can find the link at
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/contribute#review
But as far as I know the style guides don't deal with commas.
Martina
On 02/12/10 15:52, Chris Faulkner wrote:
Howdy All,
Chris Faulkner here, a new member.
Speaking of commas and such, what style guide is the pre-emptive guide to use
for authoring and editing?
Have a Writer's day,
Chris F
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From: Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com>
To: auth...@user-faq.openoffice.org
Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 8:46:33 AM
Subject: Re: [authors] Using Commas
On 2/11/2010 11:38 AM, Sandeep Medikonda wrote:
Hi All,
Do we use commas in a series of 3 or more things? I know the IBM Style Guide
and MSTP recommend it ... what is the normal convention here?
Regards,
Sandeep
Use the Oxford (Harvard) serial comma. Confer the Wikipedia on serial commas,
if you need any help (which I doubt you do...).
The newspapers generally do not follow that practice, which probably goes back
to their time in the past in an attempt to save a character for their narrow
columns. Ditto for narrow newspaper typefaces such as Times or Times New Roman.
Gary
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