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Subject:RE: Web Writing: Numbers - spell out or not? From:"Cook, Jenise" <jenise -dot- cook-crabbe -at- pacificlife -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 3 May 2001 12:46:36 -0700
Thanks, Jo, you're right. As for hardcopy conventions, I already know and
use those.
I want to break with those conventions on our Extranet, and wanted to find
out if any usability studies would support me. I've been working on Web
content since 1998, and--I don't know--I may just put my foot down and say
I'll use digits for numbers below 10 on Web pages.
<bold>So far, responses directly to me encourage me to do so. Those TW-Lers
have referenced usability studies. I'll post a summary tomorrow.</bold>
I do appreciate *everyone's* interest in this topic, no matter if they
addressed writing for the Web or not. Reinforcement of conventions for
hardcopy is a good thing! :-)
I thought the point of the original question was whether there was any good
reason for a different convention in writing for the Web vs. writing for had
copy.
I'm not seeing anyone address the question of whether the Web is such a
different animal that it requires different rules. I'd be interested in that
angle.
Jo
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Jo Baer
Senior Technical Writer
TCF National Bank
Minneapolis, Minnesota
jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com
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