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Subject:Re: question: bulleted lists and periods From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- CORP -dot- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:39:00 -0700
That's my opinion too. I also can't stand bulleted lists that attempt to
be a sentence, like this:
You can
- walk to the market wearing a leapord-skin pillbox hat
- go swimming, if you have a swimming suit and a bathing cap and don't
mind the danger of sharks, crocodiles, and pollution
- go home.
- Scott Miller
smiller -at- portal -dot- com
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> I'm not aware of a "standard" for bulleted lists, but I can tell you
> that I find bulleted lists without an initial cap and a period--even
> those made of sentence fragments--look messy and incomplete. My
> opinion.
>
