Chicago Manual of Style online and CD-ROM
by Rob - September 28th, 2006.Filed under: Uncategorized.
For decades, The Chicago Manual of Style has been the arbiter of how text is presented on the published page. Finally, there’s an online version (by subscription — US$25 a year if you sign up before the end of the month, US$30 a year after that) and a CD-ROM version, which, I’ll note, is much cheaper from Amazon.ca (in Canada) than it is from Amazon.com, for some reason.
Anyway, some writers are indifferent to the sorts of niceties CMS deals with, but I find them endlessly fascinating (which is one of the reasons I put together Notes for the Copyeditor for my novels).
You can get a free trial of the new CMS Online here, and searching on “Chicago Manual of Style CD-ROM” will bring you to the Amazon.ca and Amazon.com listings for it.