Rules in tables

Subject: Rules in tables
From: Christopher Knight <knight -at- ADA -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:54:55 PDT

Recently I got a review back from my boss (who is not a TC professional)
and he asked me to put horizontal & vertical rules in all my tables.
I operate on the "minimum ink" principle (thank you Edward Tufte), and
don't use rules unless the table has so many columns that I have to
scrunch it horizontally, or the cells are irregular (i.e. have indents
or other structure within the cells). The document is a software Users'
Guide for telecom operations center personnel, with a fair amount of
tabular material, but little of it meets my criteria for using rules.
What do you think? Anybody have thoughts on this issue?

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