Do-it-yourself style guides for all occasions

A style guide is a set of editorial decisions. Most large companies have style guides for their documentation/publication departments, to keep all their documents consistent. This paper discusses types and uses of style guides, and how to create them. A style guide can be as simple as a one-page checklist for a particular type of document, or a boilerplate file on your computer. If you have a number of similar documents to create or edit, making a style guide can save a lot of time and energy, and improve the final product