: Re: What are the most common style manuals? From Wikipedia: A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for

The Apple and the Microsoft style manuals (do not have the exact names with me to provide) are valuable for as style guides for software documentation and any writing about computers. They were formerly available easily on the websites, but have become harder to find. Maybe someone has archived these? Search around in MSDN and you'll find the current Microsoft UI documentation guidelines.

They were THE definitive guides for whether "double-click" has a hyphen (it does), what to call an interface thingy that you click to select one of several options (MS calls it an "option button", Apply calls it a "radio button" and that sort of thing).

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