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Subject:Re: Numerals and Bullets From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:30:08 -0800
>There is also the convention that states if any item of a list forms a
>complete sentence, then all the items in the list should have periods
>(exclamation points? question marks?). This is logically indefensible, but
>it is the way things are done.
One expects a reasonable degree of parallelism among the items of a bulleted
list. It's hard to think of a good reason for having a list like:
* tea
* cookies
* jam
* Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid
of their country.
