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Subject:Re: bold the colon? From:"Mary Brune" <mbrune -at- actioneer -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 05 Oct 1999 12:57:38 -0700
I took a technical editing course a year or so ago, and (for what it's
worth) my professor said "always bold the colon following bolded text in a
list." I'm paraphrasing, actually. I can't remember what she said verbatim,
but the nugget I remember was "bold the colon."
