Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!daugher From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: what happened to the Chicago Manual of Style? Summary: not in Webster Message-ID: <6575@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 90 00:29:50 GMT References: <50858@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 24 In article chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) writes: >sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >> The Chicago Manual of Style >>Now my question is, what happened to the latter? The first four >>books are all distributed online with each system. > >It is in there. Run Webster and click on the contents menu cell. Look >for "A Handbook of style". > Sorry, that's "A Handbook of Style," not "The Chicago Manual of Style," which is much more substantial. In fact, under "Documentation of Sources" it even says "For more detailed information, The Chicago Manual of Style, 13th edition, and the MLA Style Sheet may be consulted." I think my grad students would really benefit from having the real thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---