Re: Trends in documentation delivery?

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Does anyone know what style guidelines IBM follows for hardcopy
>documentation?  For example, fonts for keys a user types, information a
>user types (on a command line or parameter line) and so on.  What is the
>style usage for bolding, italicizing, quotation marks?  What style is
>used when referencing a field name or menu option in text?

David--

Print shops can sell you a little eyepiece thing you lay on a printed
document and look into to show what size type is being used. Get one and use
it to see who is doing what that you like. As for style thoughts, look
closely at IBM's redbook style that uses sans serif type faces almost
exclusively--I find that fatiguing and think redbooks make a great arguement
for setting type with a conventional, easy to read, small but heavily-lead
serif. Remember too, whitespace, whitespace, whitespace.

rp



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