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Subject:Re: Line spacing in bullet li From:"Christopher M. Fisher" <Christopher_M_Fisher -at- ANDERSEN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Dec 1994 10:11:07 CS
Re:
>When using bulleted lists,
>is there any standard for applying spacing between items? When I was
>doing work for IBM, I was told to use compact lists (i.e., no line
>spacing between items) if the items were one line long. If any of the
>items fit on more than one line, then put a line space between all
>items in the list.
That's how I've been doing things at Andersen. However, if I'm working on a
document that has multiple bullet point lists, and if *any* of those lists has
an item that runs for more than one line, I add the extra line space between
the items on *all* the lists (only because using two spacing conventions within
a single document may be perceived as sloppy formatting).
This rule does tend to eat up a lot of space in a document, but using compact
formatting in multi-line bullet point lists just doesn't look right to me.
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Christopher Fisher
Communication Specialist cfisher -at- andersen -dot- com
Andersen Consulting
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