Style guide
Writing and formatting conventions for Docsy project documentation.
This project follows Google’s developer documentation style guide, and uses Prettier and Markdownlint to enforce basic formatting rules.
Front matter
- Do not quote string values unless doing so would otherwise cause ambiguity or unintended type interpretation.
- Drop
linkTitlewhen it is the same astitle.
Content
Verb tense
- Use present tense for all content, except as noted below.
- For release and upgrade blog posts:
- Use present tense when referring to the release itself, for example:
Docsy 0.14.0 adds …
- Use past tense only when describing previous releases or pre-release
behavior, for example:
Before Docsy 0.14.0, the navbar was …
- Use present tense when referring to the release itself, for example:
- For the Changelog: use past tense; see its style guide.
Lists
- Use periods when list items are complete sentences (including imperative steps).
- Omit periods when list items are fragments, labels, or link-only bullets.
- Keep punctuation consistent within each list. When this isn’t possible, ask the author how they prefer reworking the list item text: e.g., by making all sentences complete.