Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guruquestion)

Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guruquestion)
From: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
To: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:18:10 -0600

The requirements of government documents are a horse of a different feather. In cases like that, you choke back the bile and produce the document that conforms to the requirements and the petty power mongers from the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Department of Redundancy Department who tend to enforce them.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guruquestion)

I've never really felt the need to. I usually just repeat the header rows, and if necessary the caption. But I
seem to recall some regulated documents I made years ago where the govt approver had a cow if
"continued" wasn't used, so I guess at least one of
my former readers was such a dolt. :)

Gene Kim-Eng


"Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> wrote...
<rant>
Every time this sort of thing comes up I read through the messages with slack-jawed wonder... are our readers such dolts that they've never encountered a two-page table? Why on earth do we need to add "Continued..." to the top of each additional page?

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