Thanks. Actually, I am not seeking guidance, especially about style. I love NIST SP 811. It is the first place I go for conversion formulas.
ASTM publishes more than 14000 standards that guide U.S. commerce and industry in diverse areas from paints to machinery. In the last 20 years, for instance, contracts for the U.S. Department of Defense are more likely to reference ASTM standards than military standards. It is difficult to overstate the importance of ASTM to metrication in the U.S.A. Many of these ASTM standards reference ASTM SI 10; for those that don’t need it, it is there and ready when needed. ---- On 8/21/10 5:56 AM, "John M. Steele" <[email protected]> wrote: While you wait for the new edition of ANSI SI10, you might consider NIST SP330 and SP811. Both are free pdf downloads. For technical editting, SP811 would make a very satisfactory style guide in my opinion. Since you wouldn't be spending any money, you could still get SI10 when it is available. ________________________________ From: Patrick Moore <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 9:54:01 AM Subject: [USMA:48403] Re: ASTM SI10 There are six technical editors where I work, and a personal copy of ASTM SI 10 will be purchased for each of us. Complying with this standard will make the engineering manuals we prepare more useful to the technical community we serve and to posterity. Thank you for the information, and thanks to the entire committee for updating the document! ------- On 8/18/10 10:04 AM, "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are aiming at having the new SI 10 on the market by the end of this year. > > Jim Frysinger > Vice Chair, IEEE/ASTM Joint Committee for Maintaining SI 10 > > On 2010-08-18 0822, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I notice on the ASTM website <http://www.astm.org/Standards/SI10.htm> that >> ASTM is still selling the 2002 edition of consensus standard ASTM SI 10. >> >> Does one of us involved in the ASTM committee know when the superseding >> document will be published? >> >> Thank you. >> >> _ _ _ >> >> >> >>
