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Subject:Re: ANOTHER punctuation question From:Bev Lockhart <bl -at- SEATTLELAB -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:37:55 -0700
We do! In the Preface. But who reads the Preface? <vbg>
At 01:16 PM 8/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>You can go the italics route as long as you explain in a preliminary
section
>of your book what italics in command lines means. For that matter, you can
>put it any way you like, including within < >, as long as you have
>explained what the reader is to understand when such an item appears. This
>is not a question of right/wrong, good/better, etc. What you have is fine;
>what you want to do is fine. Just explain it to the reader.
>
>
>Helen Cygnarowicz, Manager
>Information Development Group
>VERTEX SATCOM SYSTEMS, INC.
>2211 Lawson Lane
>Santa Clara CA 95054
>408-654-5600 x4215
>408-654-5613/14 fax
>helen -at- tiw -dot- com
>
>
>
~~~~~ Bev Lockhart, Doc Editor, Seattle Lab
