Re: Editor Please....

Subject: Re: Editor Please....
From: Melonie Holliman <melonie -dot- holliman -at- TXEXMTA4 -dot- AMD -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:10:03 -0500

Howdy,

Just a side note: I quit putting commands in quotes awhile back. I now
use bold or italic for the very reason you mention--I kept having users
trying to type in the quotes. Well, it solved the problem.


Melonie R. Holliman
Technical Writer
CPD Marketing
Advanced Micro Devices

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Sampson [SMTP:wfreds -at- CRUZIO -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 11:28 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Editor Please....
>
> Lisa:
>
> This subject created ongoing discussion between me and my supervisor a few
> months ago. He accepted the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
> Publications as gospel, except on this one. He was afraid that a user
> would
> type *arrgh.* (including the period) if we told the user to type "arrgh."
> instead of "arrgh". I think this came from his background in programming ,
> in which every bit of punctuation means something. Not that it doesn't
> mean
> anything grammatically. He also thought the period inside the quotation
> marks "looked funny." I think it looks funny with the period outside the
> quotation marks. But, that may be because I know what the convention is.
>
>


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