Contents
(Based upon Version 4.5 of the Help version)
The MSTP is divided into the following 13 sections:
Introduction: Provides acknowledgements and a brief guide to using the manual
Documenting the User Interface: Provides standardized names for elements of the Microsoft user interface. For example, it differentiates between a combo-box and a list-box and delineates how to refer to file names.
Content Formatting and Layout: Deals with several formatting and layout issues, including pictures with captions and tables.
Global Content: Provides instructions for ensuring that documents will be understood throughout the world by avoiding local references and making texts easy to translate.
Content for Software Developers: Gives conventions for code formatting and other issues that affect developers.
Web Content: Defines parameters for titles and descriptions of web pages, as well as ways of referring to tags, elements, and attributes in other documents.
Legal Content and Front Matter: Provides information about copyrights, trademarks, and other legal issues.
Indexing and Attributing: Contains guidelines for indexes and keywords.
Tone and Rhetoric: Urges the writer to avoid problems with tone. Specifically, it calls on technical writers to have a formal tone that is nevertheless interesting. It suggests writing should contain the following values: empathy, responsibility, passion, and inspiration.
Common Style Problems: Points out common problems ranging from capitalization to style used when describing a procedure.
Grammatical Elements: Contains sections on the general usage of verbs and nouns.
Punctuation: Contains not only information about using punctuation in general, but also some elements specific to the technical writing industry, such as formatting concerns.
Usage Dictionary: An alphabetized list of terms commonly used in technical writing. It also contains a list of acronyms and abbreviations.
Read more about this topic: Microsoft Manual Of Style For Technical Publications
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