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Subject:Re: What comes after Appendix Z From:Beth Inghram <eginghram -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Joyce -dot- Fetterman -at- l-3com -dot- com Date:Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:27:10 -0700
Hi Joyce - Chicago Manual of Style says that you can use numbers or letters
(1.57 in CMOS 16, if you need chapter and verse). I have never seen it in
the wild, at least not that I can remember offhand, but if Chicago says you
can do it, you're relatively safe,
Beth Inghram, technical editor
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:08 PM, <Joyce -dot- Fetterman -at- l-3com -dot- com> wrote:
> After many years as a tech writer, for the first time I have a document
> with more than 26 appendices. How do you identify appendices after Appendix
> Z? My first inclination is to use Appendix AA, but figured it was worth
> asking in case someone has come up with a better option or a reason why
> using AA isn't a good idea.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joyce Fetterman
> Technical Writer
> L-3 Communications Display Systems
> 770-346-8255
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