Daniel Carrera wrote:
Lou Iorio wrote:
I can certainly live with your rules; I was simply looking for
justification. I have seen none yet.
You have been given plenty. There is no benefit in using the other style
(since both are legitimate) and there is a significant drawback in terms
of training our writers, and work for our reviewers and editors. ...
because I've worked here mostly as a reviewer, and I don't want to go
We have limited resources and we must be careful as to where to use them.
Thinking this over some more, I must say that in my opinion the
only "justification" we need is that our choice is easier to
implement and not wrong.
As Daniel says, the other style provides no benefit and editing
to get it right takes time away from other, far more important
things that we should be doing... at least if you believe (as we
do) that the most important things are for the writing to be
clear and understandable by the target audience, and for the
information to be accurate.
Regards, Jean
