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Re: OT: (almost) Blank Pages

Subject: Re: OT: (almost) Blank Pages
From: Victoria Camgros <vcamgros -at- persistence -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:23:12 -0800

At 03:47 PM 1/24/01 -0500, jgarison -at- ide -dot- com wrote:

<snip>
Rather than repeating "This page intentionally left blank," whoever wrote
the "Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project: Phase III Final Report" got creative:

* The relative blankness of this page in no way diminishes its usefulness in
the report.

* Blank page prevention words.

* With these words, this page is no longer blank but is complete.

* This sentence lets you know this page was not a mistake.

* This almost blank page was intentional.

* This page intentionally left unblank.

* Despite these words, this page is blank.

* Without this mostly blank page, the following text would be on the wrong
side of the paper.

So ... for those of you still doing print manuals - what DO you do in this
case?

This is way weird.

I first ran into this convention when working on classified documentation for the U.S. government (mumbledy) years ago when we used typewriters and phototypesetters (yup) and wax to do paste-up (look them UP if you're too young to remember). Sometimes pasted-up pieces could slip off the page, due to hurry or to abuse or to aging wax.

Few people (if any) work this way anymore. I doubt any letters or words can fall off the page in Word or FrameMaker. So why on Earth is anyone doing this anymore?

Anybody have a justification for the "page left blank" convention any longer?

(feeling ancient)
Vickie


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