Move lesson example's style guide to handbook

[rgaiacs]

http://carpentries.github.io/lesson-example/06-style-guide/index.html need to be moved to here.

[maneesha]

Thanks @rgaiacs
As an end user, where in the Handbook would it make most sense for this to go for you?

[rgaiacs]

As an end user, where in the Handbook would it make most sense for this to go for you?

https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/communications/style-guide.html It should have a section about code.

[brownsarahm]

the intro to the Handbook Style Guide says that it doesn't necessarily apply to lessons though, should that also change if we pull the current lesson style guide into the Handbook Style Guide?

[rgaiacs]

the intro to the Handbook Style Guide says that it doesn't necessarily apply to lessons though

I read it as "this Style Guide doesn't apply to the lessons in Spanish" or "this Style Guide doesn't apply to the lesson that we are prototyping and is being lead by instructors only from country C". I think that for the the main lessons we should use the Style Guide.

[brownsarahm]

it says, in the second paragraph(emphasis mine):

We will adhere to a similar style on our website and in other material we make widely available such as blog posts, but not necessarily in lessons

I agree that for the main lessons we should use the Style Guide, but if we are going to, we should remove that phrase from the style guide.

[maneesha]

@zkamvar I think this falls under the work you do. Is this something we should keep open?

[maneesha]

Pinging @zkamvar

[maneesha]

Checking in @zkamvar

[bencomp]

I just mentioned in carpentries/lesson-example#258 that the link to the Style guide in the Handbook is broken.

As a maintainer/lesson contributor, I would like to have a single style guide for lesson contents. I feel that adding (or rather moving) the current style guide from the lesson example to the Handbook Style guide would make the latter even less easy to navigate. (The table of contents on the left only lists letters, so I have to search or browse the whole page to see if the guide could answer my question.)

The lesson example style guide helps with markup (and Markdown), whereas the Handbook's Style guide is focused on the text contents.
It could help to make this distinction more clearly and to add a reference to the lesson style guide, which of course will soon be the Workbench's guide.

[maneesha]

@zkamvar can we close this given the new lesson templates you are releasing?

[bencomp]

I rediscovered the Lesson Development handbook today and wonder if that should be the place for a lesson style guide.

[maneesha]

@tobyhodges Do you want to keep this issue active in the new handbook? If it is no longer relevant, we can close this issue.

[tobyhodges]

I think we can close this issue. I drafted a style guide for the Workbench infrastructure, and in my opinion it makes more sense as a part of that documentation site, as opposed to belonging in the central handbook. My main argument for this is that sandpaper/the Workbench is being quite widely used outside The Carpentries, and the guidance we are providing in the style guide is relevant to all of those porjects, as opposed to only The Carpentries.