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Subject:RE: Value of giving up numbering in Word? From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:21:03 -0700
Look, Dan, I don't need your patronizing explication of the semantics of
lists.
Aside from that, you imply that a single step "procedure" doesn't need
an antecedent (graphical or otherwise). That's nonsense.
"Technical writers" can't be aficionados?
Leonard C. Porrello
SoleraTec LLC
www.soleratec.com
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> From: Leonard C. Porrello
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>
> Dan Goldstein stated: "To always number lists is
> foolish dogma. To always be *ready* to number
> lists is common sense."
>
> I generally agree -- except that I got management
> and QA buy in for how I do procedures before I
> started...
>
> I do think we've beat this horse to death, but I
> do have one (not rhetorical) question. How do all
> of you aficionados of numbered procedures denote
> a "procedure" when it has only one step?
Sounds pretty rhetorical to me. Look, Leonard, a numbered list is the
equivalent of saying: "First, pick up the dry cleaning. Then, drop off
Mr. Webster's suit at the lecture hall. After that, go around the back
of the lecture hall and look for the box that Mr. Roget left there, and
put it in the car. Finally, I need you to drop the box at Mr. White's
house, and pick up the frozen turkey he's got waiting for me."
Obviously, if all you need to do is to pick up the dry cleaning, you
wouldn't say "first."
"Aficionados"? Try "technical writers."
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