RE: leading into a list

Subject: RE: leading into a list
From: John Wilcox <JWilcox -at- zetron -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:17:06 -0700


TechComm Dood's friend wrote:

> Should the sentence introducing a list of steps end in a colon?
> Or, should it have no ending punctuation if it is not a
> complete sentence?
> E.g., "To install the widget
> 1. Do this.
> 2. Do that.
> 3. Do t'other"

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

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Regards,
John Wilcox, Technical Writer
Zetron, Redmond





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