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: