RE: ISO- Is Nonconformance on Formatting? A Possibility?

[sclarke -at- nucleus -dot- com]

Can anyone tell me-definitivly-whether or not a company can receive a 
non-conformance on the formatting of the documentation? I'm sure this 
sounds ridiculous but here's the situation. I started and developed the 
outline for a style guide for the development of the documentation for the 
QA system. Another person finished writing it. We'd agreed on margins, 
indentation etc. etc. and then unbeknownst to me the other individual 
unilaterally changed the settings at the fourth level.

The result? The numbering at the fourth level,on lengthier procedures, 
literally runs directly into the adjoining text without any space 
intervening. The Style Guide has been  has already been signed off and my 
employers (who are aware of the problem) do *not* want to rectify the 
problem. They advised me that "they'd rather take a 'non-conformance' for 
it and change it later....maybe in two years." My understanding (for ISO) 
is if you say you're doing something 'this way' and then the actual 
practice is something else this could result in a non-conformance.

I think they *may* be labouring under the impression that making a change 
to the Style Guide would necessitate a change to *all* of the documentation 
that is presently under development. Couldn't we simply insert a general 
statement[into the style guide] saying something to the effect that 
"additional spacing may be required for Analytical SOP's  at the fourth 
level to accommodate detailed the procedures."

So my questions are: 1) Can anyone tell me whether a non-conformance is a 
definite possibility in this instance and 2) Is my solution (to rectify the 
spacing problem) viable?

Thanks to all in advance and hope you have a good evg. Really hot weather 
up here tonite. Yeow!

Sara-Sue


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