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Subject:Re: the pound sign (#) From:Nancy Hoft <itech -at- MV -dot- MV -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 11 Aug 1995 10:27:51 -0400
In my research on international technical communication most resources
indicated that technical communication should avoid using symbols like #,
/ and so on for all of the reasons everyone has stated thus far. The # has
many meanings, making it very difficult for translators and nonnative
readers of your source language documents to understand the intended
meaning of the symbol.
