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 Writing/revising documents
Author:Les Chainey
Date:Friday, 15th Feb 2002 11:56
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Does anyone know of a standard for writing/revising documents. The information I particularly need is recommendations for revising documents eg details of changes on a change summary page or marking of changes in margins.
I have searched the BSI website with no joy and read ASME Y14.35M but this covers engineering drawings and not other documents. I should explain that I work for an Engineering company so it is mainly technicial reports and procedures that I am interested in.

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  Writing/revising documents
Does anyone know of a standard for writing/revising documents. The information I particularly need is recommendations for revising documents eg ...
Les Chainey 15/02/02 11:56 15812
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Les The standard you need is probably BS5261, which gives the proofreading symbols for use in the margins and in the ...
Gerald Law 18/02/02 17:28 15922
   Re: Writing/revising documents
There's BS 4884-1:1992 Technical manuals. Specification for presentation of essential information. I don't have a copy though, so I'm not ...
Kevin O'Connor 18/02/02 12:12 15894
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Thanks I'll take a look.
Les Chainey 18/02/02 12:20 15895

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