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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
112.0. "Follow/: redundancy" by BABEL::SAVAGE () Thu Nov 14 1985 11:47
I'm interested in opinions regarding the use of such stock phrases as:
...THE FOLLOWING... and
...AS FOLLOWS:
both used with a colon (:) at the end of the sentence.
I was taught that this was redundant because the colon itself stands for
"something will follow."
Digital religiously adheres to The Chicago Manual of Style (see Item 5.78)
but does that make it right?
Taking the TCMoS example in 5.78, I would rather see:
The steps are:
1. Tie the string to the green pole and...
Why have non-working words when printing and typesetting costs are so
high? Think of all the waste we could save if we could eliminate this
practice from all Digital documents.
Neil
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