Board Thread:The Scriptorium/@comment-25254585-20140802231732/@comment-25085701-20140805004551

LadyAlys:  *grins* There's a reason behind my suggestion: personal experience. I work as a technical writer with a separate Standards group that oversees the 320 page corporate style guide. Occasionally they sneak new standards changes in, and our peer editor dynamic (we have 82 writers, 15 in my group, and 4 in our minigroup) responsibility for catching the style inconsistencies lies with us, but we can't stop and double check the style guide on everything that we think might be an error when there's a 2 day turnaround on 1K page count manuals. The 'be consistent with the rest of the page/chapter/book' guideline is what we use while peer editing, but the Style Guide comes with both detailed explanations and a quick reference card for the frequently used stuff (capitalizations, tabs, bolding, italics).

It's true that the Guidance for Scribes isn't that big yet, but I wouldn't mind something the size of Rebeccaholmes's thing as a quick help (with a link to the GfS page in it) while I have the editor open somehow so I don't have to have the other page open in another tab every time we do edits.