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A real dazzling amount of style-guides that seems quite overwhelming and intimidating to me.
Just curious: did you distill your own style to be used from all those guides or do you browse per issue through them in order to find an answer that suit your particular needs at that moment?
My workflow would be that when, for instance, I worked for IBM, I would pick their style-guide as my master guide, and only refer to other guides when my particular problem is not addressed in the master guide. And then: as all style references are mere "guides", I reserve the right to invent my own solution and use it consistently, which is perfectly acceptable as any actively used language is subject to change over time.
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