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Subject:Re: Single-step procedures From:Pat Gantt <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:27:16 -0500
> > A reviewer has just asked me to change this to a number 1 "for
> > consistency". I figure a number 1 implies more than one step.
>
> Your reviewer has a strange sense of consistency, and I am in agreement
> with you.
Ditto. There is consistency and there is what pulls the
eye away from the item and to the numbering and bullet.
Thus, losing the real message to the reader.
IMHO the 1 number would look quite odd.
Is there a compromise here? Another way to make
the direction/statement? Without either?
Depending on the reviewer's sway you may have to go for
the consistency... reality does intrude <voice trailing>
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