"Lint your docs like code: turn any style guide into enforceable rules with Vale and publish clear, consistent content every time.

Create consistent content that gives readers confidence with Vale, the open-source prose linter that helps you enforce your style guide automatically. Use battle-tested rules based on freely available, popular style guides, apply your brand’s terms with a custom vocabulary, and integrate Vale into your text editor, Git hooks, and CI pipeline. Catch typos and inclusive-language issues before they ship, and spend your energy on shaping ideas instead of fixing copy. Whether you’re a technical writer working in a docs-as-code environment, or a software engineer who occasionally writes, you’ll ship clean, consistent copy every time.

When you work on a content project, keeping things consistent can feel impossible. Typos slip through, people don’t follow style rules, and each contributor brings a slightly different voice. Vale helps you ensure consistency across your content.

You’ll start by catching typos as you learn how Vale works through hands-on examples. Then you’ll bring in community rules based on Google’s and Microsoft’s style guides. You’ll combine overlapping styles, adjust the rules to match your needs, and start shaping the experience you want readers to have. Then you’ll build your own rules from scratch and create a custom vocabulary to teach Vale to enforce your team’s voice and jargon. By the end, you’ll have a fully integrated, reusable style package that works in your editor, GitHub Actions, and your build systems. And while this book uses Markdown in its examples, you’ll be ready to apply everything you learned to reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and even the comments in your source code.

Vale gives you a fast, reliable, and customizable way to keep your content consistent."

https://books.google.pt/books?id=nMabEQAAQBAJ

#TechnicalWriting #Vale #Markdown #DocsAsCode #StyleGuides #TechnicalCommunication

Write Better with Vale

Lint your docs like code: turn any style guide into enforceable rules with Vale and publish clear, consistent content every time.Create consistent content that gives readers confidence with Vale, the open-source prose linter that helps you enforce your style guide automatically. Use battle-tested rules based on freely available, popular style guides, apply your brand’s terms with a custom vocabulary, and integrate Vale into your text editor, Git hooks, and CI pipeline. Catch typos and inclusive-language issues before they ship, and spend your energy on shaping ideas instead of fixing copy. Whether you’re a technical writer working in a docs-as-code environment, or a software engineer who occasionally writes, you’ll ship clean, consistent copy every time.When you work on a content project, keeping things consistent can feel impossible. Typos slip through, people don’t follow style rules, and each contributor brings a slightly different voice. Vale helps you ensure consistency across your content.You’ll start by catching typos as you learn how Vale works through hands-on examples. Then you’ll bring in community rules based on Google’s and Microsoft’s style guides. You’ll combine overlapping styles, adjust the rules to match your needs, and start shaping the experience you want readers to have. Then you’ll build your own rules from scratch and create a custom vocabulary to teach Vale to enforce your team’s voice and jargon. By the end, you’ll have a fully integrated, reusable style package that works in your editor, GitHub Actions, and your build systems. And while this book uses Markdown in its examples, you’ll be ready to apply everything you learned to reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and even the comments in your source code.Vale gives you a fast, reliable, and customizable way to keep your content consistent.What You Need:This book uses Vale 3.12.0 or higher. You’ll need a text editor like Visual Studio Code or Vim. You should be familiar with basic regular expressions, and be comfortable working with command-line tools and Markdown.

Google Books

## Please Don't Nerf RubyLang Because #StyleGuides

Ruby has made some internal changes that remind me of the changes #RSpec made to clean up internals but uglified the code & made certain features simply stop working as expected.

Removing `foo rescue nil` is an exmaple. Some edge cases make this antipattern useful; replacing a one-liner with a complex method/chain is annoying. Mindful chainsaw-juggling gave expert #Rubyists superpowers. Not trusting power users is red #Kryptonite for code.

#Design #Experiences
AI style guides for product copy · When machines choose not to follow the rules https://ilo.im/166g61

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#CopyWriting #Content #StyleGuides #Marketing #Business #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

What we learned building AI style guides for product copy

Teaching machines to follow rules they don’t want to follow

Alright, I’m in the mood to start mocking up a design system for my personal blog/portfolio site. Everything is a little hazy in my mind right now, so I want to start tinkering around somewhere with colors, typography, etc. I know there is Figma, so I could start with that.

❓Are there any alternatives to Figma that others out in the Fediverse prefer using?

#AskFedi #Advice #DesignSystems #StyleGuides #GoodDistractions

Design Systems and Style Guides: essential tools for creating consistency and scaling design effectively. Learn how they differ and work together to improve collaboration, branding, and user experience.

#DesignSystems, #StyleGuides, #UserExperience, #BrandConsistency, #Collaboration, #ScalableDesign

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-systems-vs-style-guides-comprehensive-samer-tallauze-og7te/?trackingId=zhDKsfA0r9x8cA7Dx6k4yQ%3D%3D

Design Systems vs. Style Guides: A Comprehensive Comparison

In today’s fast-moving design world, creating cohesive user experiences across multiple platforms and teams can be challenging. This is where the concepts of design systems and style guides come into play.

Sieben neue und drei aktualisierte CD-Handbücher und Brand-Portale wurden in der Corporate-Design-Manual-Sammlung im dt aufgenommen. Neu hinzugekommen sind unter anderem die CD-Handbücher des Kanton Fribourg, der Marke Burgenland und der Versicherung Die Paritätische.

https://www.designtagebuch.de/neue-cd-manuals-092024-kanton-fribourg-burgenland-die-paritaetische-u-a/

#CorporateDesign #Styleguides #Manuals #BrandHubs

Neue CD-Manuals 09/2024: Kanton Fribourg, Burgenland, Die Paritätische, u.a. - Design Tagebuch

Sieben neue und drei aktualisierte CD-Handbücher und Brand-Portale wurden in der Corporate-Design-Manual-Sammlung im dt aufgenommen. Neu hinzugekommen sind unter anderem die CD-Handbücher des Kanton Fribourg, der Marke Burgenland und der Versicherung Die Paritätische.

Design Tagebuch

I was not expecting this footnote in the new Chicago Manual of Style. Thank you, editors of #CMOS18, for modeling #ConsciousLanguage.

"5.255: Making Conscious Choices…Here we draw on the term 'conscious language' as used by Karen Yin, founder of the Conscious Style Guide website." ❤️

#AmWriting #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #StyleGuide #StyleGuides #Copyediting #ConsciousStyle

[Перевод] Эффективный Dart: Руководство по стилю

Привет, если вы на пути изучения Flutter/Dart или вам просто интересно почитать про путь изучения, подписывайтесь на мой канал в telegram, буду рад вас видеть! А сегодня поговорим про руководство по стилю в Dart! Удивительно важной частью хорошего кода является хороший стиль. Согласованное присвоение имен, упорядочение и форматирование помогают одинаковому коду выглядеть одинаково. В нем используются преимущества мощного аппаратного обеспечения для сопоставления с образцом, которое есть у большинства из нас в наших зрительных системах. Если мы используем единый стиль во всей экосистеме Dart, всем нам будет легче учиться на коде друг друга и вносить свой вклад в него.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/802881/

#flutter #dart #style #styleguides

Эффективный Dart: Руководство по стилю

Effective Dart: Style Привет, если вы на пути изучения Flutter/Dart или вам просто интересно почитать про путь изучения, подписывайтесь на мой  канал  в telegram, буду рад вас видеть! А...

Хабр

I write a lot (and please don't write "alot"), so I own and use many style manuals.

The #AssociatedPress (AP) has good ones, though I'd like to suggest and exception to one of its rules:

When referring to Trump, let's acknowledge how much of his presidency he spent slacking off playing golf, by capitalizing his title thusly:

pResident Trump

https://writingexplained.org/ap-style/ap-style-president

#Trump not #APstyle #StyleGuides

AP Style President - Writing Explained

When to Capitalize President The AP Stylebook holds that you should capitalize president only as a formal title that is before one or more names. For example, President Barack Obama Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton President should be lowercase is all other uses. Example, The president will make an announcement tomorrow. I am ... Read more

Writing Explained

...new blog post by Vagelis Papakonstantinou on the LSTS blog
"Those of us involved in academic writing, specifically with legal writing, are all too familiar with the problem: there is no EU-specific citation style.

Nowhere else is this more evident than in automated citation software. [...]"

#eulaw #europeanlaw #legalcommunity #citations #styleguides #legalwriting #academicwriting #academicresearch https://lsts.research.vub.be/when-are-we-finally-going-to-get-an-eu-citation-style

When are we finally going to get an EU citation style? |

Vagelis Papakonstantinou writes on citation styles in Academic writing in law.