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Subject:Re: commas in a series From:Guy Haas <ghaas -at- INFORMIX -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 18 May 1994 08:55:31 -0700
> On Wed, 18 May 1994 09:38:47 EDT, SuePStewrt opined:
[snip]
> Bullet the danged list!
> Attach the wires in the following order:
> *red,
> *green,
> *blue and white, and
> *purple.
> suepstewrt -at- aol -dot- com
Ah, but SueP -- that raises another editorial issue:
Should we even _include_ the punctuation and
conjunction in a bulleted list? Or do it thus:
] Attach the wires in the following order:
] * red
] * green
] * blue and white
] * purple
--ghaas -at- informix -dot- com
Guy K. Haas, Sr. Tech Writer RTFM?
Informix Software Inc IWTFT!
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Menlo Park, CA 94025
[If I were speaking on behalf of Informix, I'd say so, *explicitly*.]
