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Re: leading into a list

Subject: Re: leading into a list
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:38:19 -0400




TechComm Dood wrote:

We set the To phrase as a heading (5). That way we don't need no steenking
punctuation.

This is the best response so far, but nobody has really given a good and
thorough answer to the question asked.


I don't know about anyone else, but I use Headings for heading text
and certainly don't associate heading levels staticly with content
that may appear in various places in the hierarchy of a book. That is,
I don't follow Heading 2 with Heading 5 for the sake of formatting.


Fair enough, but missing the point. If you designate a style (call it ListTitle instead of Heading5) that provides a visual clue that a list follows, punctuation becomes superfluous. That style can occur within any level of the hierarchy; it isn't part of the outline; it's just a typographic device.

Personally I don't use more than three levels of heading (as in outline levels that show up in the TOC) if I can avoid it.


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RE: leading into a list: From: John Wilcox
Re: leading into a list: From: Dick Margulis
Re: leading into a list: From: TechComm Dood

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