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The Open Group Technical Publications Style Guide
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Preface
The Open Group
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The mission of The Open Group is to drive the creation of Boundaryless Information FlowTM achieved by:
- Working with customers to capture, understand, and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies, and share best practices
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Working with suppliers, consortia, and standards bodies to develop
consensus and facilitate interoperability, to evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies
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Further information on The Open Group is available at www.opengroup.org.
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This Document
This document is The Open Group Style Guide for technical publications.
It should be followed to ensure a unified approach to documentation style, organization, terminology, and appearance.
This document is intended for anyone who drafts or writes technical documents for publication by The Open Group.
Submissions to The Open Group that conform to this house style can be processed more quickly than those that do not.
Readers are expected to be familiar with text editors, word processors, and the American-English language. Readers should also understand the principles of text processing using formatting commands. Detailed knowledge of text processors used by The Open Group is not required.
- Note:
- This abridged version contains detail only of relevance to the majority of users. Detailed typesetting information specific to specialist editorial tools has been omitted from this online edition, but can be located in the PDF edition of this document.
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Referenced Documents
The following documents are referenced in this Style Guide:
- ISO 8859-1: 1987, Information Processing — 8-bit Single-byte Coded Graphic Character Sets — Part 1: Latin Alphabet No. 1; refer to: www.iso.ch
- Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, SunSoft Press, A Prentice Hall Title, 1996, ISBN 0-13-455347-0
- The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press
- Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster ; refer to: www.merriam-webster.com
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