October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
8h 15m
English
book
IBM Style Guide, The: Conventions for Writers and Editors
by Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, Eric Radzinski
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Index
Numbers
12-hour system (time of day), 181-182
24-hour system (time of day), 182
Symbols
+ (plus sign) GUI element, 215
- (minus sign) GUI element, 215
A
a, an, 10-11
abbreviations, 1-7
dates, 179-180
Latin abbreviations, 6
number abbreviations, defining, 175-176
parentheses with, 57
periods in, 5-6, 59 See references in glossaries, 252
spelled-out forms, 3-4
in titles, 7
units of measurement, 168
units of time, 8
abstract in white papers, 141
accessibility, 233-235
indexes, 258
syntax diagrams, 192
tables, 97
active voice, 35-36
adjectives, numbers in compound, 161
alignment of numbers in columns, 161-162
alphabetization. See sort order
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