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How to edit a guide

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Guide book style manual

The following points give tips on how to write consistent text and route descriptions.

  • Dates: Standard format is the abbreviated month with the full year. e.g. Jun 1974 or Dec 2007.
  • Punctuation: always a space after fullstop, comma, colon or semi-colon, but never before.
  • Spacing: only ever a single space. No blank lines.
  • Try to keep line breaks to a minimum, as they chew up space. But line breaks in a multi pitch climb are OK, they make it much more readable.
  • No "FA" needed, just the name and date of the first ascensionist.

Here is an example climb in the correct style:

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