We often chastise the AP and their stylebook. I'm just wondering if anyone
in this Litserv actually owns a copy, and what does it really say in regards
to metric?
You can buy it from Amazon for sixteen bucks. Saw another version for 11
bucks, but I seem to have lost the ref. for that. This book must be on
library and bookstore shelves of colleges with journalism classes. I will
go to Barnes and Noble when I get the chance, and see if I can find it.
Couldn't find an online version, but I did find this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/units.html
That's discouraging. If you do a net search with "associated stylebook
metric" you get quite a few interesting hits. A lot of them are from
college journalism courses and give improper usage (eg Florida Inst of Tech
says "butt up units with numbers: 35mm")
Scott C
