RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question

Subject: RE: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
From: "Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:27:56 -0700 (MST)

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Marguerite Krupp wrote:

> Kent's take on the Cautions/Warnings/Notes debate - specifically that it
> should apply only to hardware, is off the mark. There are ANSI standards
> (sorry, I can't find it now, but it's in Kristin Woolever's book, _Writing
> for the Computer Industry_ that's on my shelf at home) that describe the
> appropriate use of these notifications, and the application is NOT limited
> to hardware.

They're also discussed in an old Technical Communication
(89-91--somewhere in there) in an article by Charles Kemnitz.
He co-authored the ANSI standard, FWIW.

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