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I agree with Chris - a 1 indicates the first step. It would be confusing
to have it numbered when there is only one step. I would prefer a bullet
or an em dash.
Marci Abels
CSI
mabels -at- csiks -dot- com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:40:34 PDT
From: Christopher Knight <knight -at- ADA -dot- COM>
Subject: Single-step procedures
Further to the posting earlier about numbers-for-steps and
bullets-for-lists, my practice is to use a bullet for a procedure
with only one step. A reviewer has just asked me to change this
to a number 1 "for consistency". I figure a number 1 implies
more than one step. What do you-all think?
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