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DNSB · 08-13-2025, 08:06 PM

Currently, I use multiple style guides. For local use, I use The Canadian style : a guide to writing and editing. I also have The Canadian Press Stylebook, The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling, the New Zealand Stylebook (a gift from a fellow FootRot Flats fan), the New Oxford Style Manual, The Associated Press Stylebook, The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors and and The Chicago Manual of Style. The pbooks live next to my collection of typography books while the ebooks are stored in various places.

I also still have a Kodak International Service Language (KISL) guide which is a odd variant of a controlled language. There are no homonyms, no synonyms, etc. At time very wordy when a single English word needs multiple KISL allowed words but has the advantage of reducing the possibility for confusion.

08-13-2025, 08:06 PM	#27
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,817 Karma: 169712582 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Currently, I use multiple style guides. For local use, I use The Canadian style : a guide to writing and editing. I also have The Canadian Press Stylebook, The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling, the New Zealand Stylebook (a gift from a fellow FootRot Flats fan), the New Oxford Style Manual, The Associated Press Stylebook, The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors and and The Chicago Manual of Style. The pbooks live next to my collection of typography books while the ebooks are stored in various places. I also still have a Kodak International Service Language (KISL) guide which is a odd variant of a controlled language. There are no homonyms, no synonyms, etc. At time very wordy when a single English word needs multiple KISL allowed words but has the advantage of reducing the possibility for confusion. Last edited by DNSB; 08-13-2025 at 08:12 PM.