Re: leading into a list

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

TechComm Dood wrote:
> Posting for a friend who's having trouble posting...
>
> <<<
> Should the sentence introducing a list of steps end in a colon?
> Or, should it have no ending punctuation if it is not a complete
> sentence? E.g., "To install the widget
> 1. Do this.
> 2. Do that.
> 3. Do t'other"
>>>>
>
> My personal opinion is that it really doesn't matter as long as you're
> uniformly consistent throughout all your documentation.
>
> Thoughts?

It depends on whether "To install the widget" is a heading.

If a heading, use no colon. If text, use a colon, because the
punctuation is the two-dot equivalent of "this text is all there is."


Bonnie Granat
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