Gene and others:

Just as a follow-on, please note that, although it's in the form of a PDF,
it is not searchable. It was obviously produced by doing a scan of every
page of the 1990 edition.

Some of the latest OCR software is good enough to convert it to actual text,
with the formatting intact. However, I don't have the high-priced version of
the one I use (ScanSoft OmniPage SE 4.0 -- which is otherwise excellent).
Mine can do it from a printed copy, but not from a computer image (from any
file type).

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:20
To: 'U.S. Metric Association'
Subject: RE: [USMA:41152] AIP Style Manual (was Associated Press Style Guide
is working against us.)

Gene:

Just go to http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html to download a
free copy of the AIP Style Manual.

Bill
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Bill Potts
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] 


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Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 09:52
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:41152] RE: Associated Press Style Guide is working against
us.

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Style Manual virtually *mandates*
"metric" units, which can be interpreted to include cgs units. The AIP
consists of most American scientific societies as members. My edition of the
AIP manual is many years old. Later editions may specify SI, I'm not sure.
That's worth a Web search.  Bill, Bill, or Jim, do you know? 

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