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Style Guide

Tiny edited this page Jun 18, 2021 · 6 revisions

This is the style guide contains the best practices for the metanorma.org documentation. If you are not yet familiar with how the docs are structured, make sure to have a look at the Project documentation structure first. This page discusses:

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Personas

Who do we write for?

Writing style

Terminology

Content models

In general, there are four types of documentation on metanorma.org, see Project documentation structure. To increase consistency and predictability, the content types are standardized further, using content models. This helps readers scan the text and find what they need, quickly.

Tutorials

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How-to Guides

How-to guides consist of the following elements:

  1. Title

  2. Introductory paragraph/sentence stating why and what the user will do

  3. Prerequisite (optional)

  4. Steps

    Intermediate results (optional)

  5. Example (optional)

  6. End result

  7. Related links (optional)

Example document: How to add diagrams

Template: How to guide template

Explanations

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Reference documentation

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