RE: style questions

["Susie Q" <strct_rookie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks to all of you who responded! Your feedback is very helpful.
I am a lone writer, and it's nice to be able to bounce these kinds of 
questions
off fellow writers for a change...


> From: "Susie Q" <strct_rookie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: style questions
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:15:35 -0400
>
> Forgive the not-strictly-on-topic questions, but I wonder how other
> writers feel about these style choices:
>
> 1) referencing chapters, figures, tables using lowercase instead of
>    upper.
>
>    For example:
>
>    see figure 1-5 in chapter 3, Using our Software
>
>    instead of:
>
>   see Figure 1-5 in Chapter 3, Using our Software
>
> 2) Using quotation marks to set off a referenced heading, instead
>    of italics.
>
>    For example:
>
>    see "That other section I wrote" for more information
>
>    instead of:
>
>    see _That other section I wrote_ for more infroamtion
>    (where the _section name_ would be in italics)
>
> I'm finding both of these hard on my eyes, and wonder what
> is generally used.
>
> Thanks for any feedback --
>
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