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RE: "the following" or nothing -- what is IM's preference? (was:"Next" or "the following"... )
Subject:RE: "the following" or nothing -- what is IM's preference? (was:"Next" or "the following"... ) From:"James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:52:10 -0800
>Bear said:
>>PT wrote:
>>>Milan wrote:
>>>>PT wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Everyone is trained in Information Mapping here, so they seem to want
>>>>more at the end of the introductory sentence.
>>>
>>>Is this an interpretation of the IM approach, or an actual rule?
>>
>>I looked it up. InfoMapping uses "in the following" (list, approach,
>>procedure, etc.) almost exclusively. They also use "below" a lot, which I
>>will not do in hard copy documentation. It's difficult enough to have
>>reasonable page endings with IM without having to anchor something to
>>something else in Word. Ack.
>>
>>As far as the other comments, IM was used to train non-writers to do their
>>own documentation because they didn't have a technical writer at all. They
>>still prefer using the methodology for their documentation, so that means
>>I use it too. :-)
>
>What exactly is your objection to "below?"
My unsolicited 2¢: The word "below" typically ends up in sentences like
"See the below information", which gives me the heebeege...hebege...which
gives me the willies.
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