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Subject:Re: File names in text From:Mark Levinson <mark -at- SD -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 1995 12:41:53 IST
Personally, I CAPITALIZE all the letters in, for example: FILE.TXT, and also,
if feasible, I will also put the filename in bold type.
** Don't your pages look like raisin bread? I assume we're talking about
DOS files, which don't go over 8+3 characters in length, but even so
all-caps must kind of stick out intrusively on a proportionally-fonted
page. I'd use small caps and stay away from bold.
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