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Subject:Style Guide Questions From:Dan Lupo <Dan_Lupo -at- CCMAIL -dot- US -dot- DELL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Oct 1995 15:07:16 CST
Hi colleagues:
Four very mundane questions here that I need your wisdom and expertise on:
1. Do you distinguish between how you format metric (SI) values/units of
measure from how you format computer-related values/units of measure? For
example, 90 MHz (1 space between) and 25KB (no space between) [as nouns,
not modifiers].
2. Do you distinguish between _file_ and _document_ (if so, how)?
3. Is there a convention for formatting Asia/Pacific phone numbers?
4. Is there a convention for formatting Asia/Pacific dates?
Please send responses to me, unless you think it's worth the bandwidth. I
will summarize to the list.
