Ampersands in TOC and headers?

Subject: Ampersands in TOC and headers?
From: "Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:41:49 -0800


My docs feature some relatively long, task oriented titles. To minimize
the length of TOC entries, I've used ampersands in the way they are used
in newspaper headlines.

Is this problematic from a style perspective?

Thanks in advance!

Leonard

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