Re: Stylebook committee

**Jane Milliman g*@rochester.rr.com**

On 11/20/02 12:06 PM, "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Why compile a new one?

Do the style books you mentioned have all the necessary information to deal
with writing about plants?

I agree that there doesn't need to be a whole style book, but a uniform
style sheet, just addressing things botanical, might come in handy. No two
references handle nomenclature the same way, which can be frustrating.

I fight constantly my with editor (newspaper) who wants to put cultivar
names in double quotes, not single. This week she kept italicizing all over
the place. Not that a GWAA style book would help in my particular
battle---Gannett uses Gannett's style rules, and they are iron-clad.

Wow! Didn't know I had that little vent in me. Pardon.
 -- 
    Jane Milliman <gardener@rochester.rr.com>
    Publisher
    Upstate Gardeners' Journal
    3200 East Ave., Caledonia, NY 14423
    phone: 585/538-4980
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