RE: Your thoughts on punctuation?

["John Rosberg" <jrosberg -at- interwoven -dot- com>]

The Chicago Manual of Style police will write me up, I'm sure, but
punctuation serves to make written communication more clear.

In your examples, I don't see that the lack of a period would further
clarify the communication. Since you've limited real estate on which to
display the data, and likely limited Karmic points with the developers,
I'd let it ship as is, and save my energy for other, more important
fights.

rosberg

short version -- is this a hill you are willing to die on?

;-}

-----Original Message-----
From: Ladonna Weeks [mailto:ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:53 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Your thoughts on punctuation?

Hello,
Our product has a keypad used for installation and diagnostics.
It can display up to four lines of 20 characters each. What is
correct punctuation for brief, informative statements, such as
the following:
 
(line 1) Calling server
(line 4) Please wait
 
Should there be a period after each statement? I'm having trouble
getting the programmers to add periods and I wonder if the
convention for such displays is to leave them off. What is your
experience?
 
 
Ladonna Weeks
 <mailto:ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com> ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com
314-895-7674
cell: 314-210-1652
 

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