It's a matter of house style. Some retain all digits (135-137); some
retain the low-order two digits (135-37); some delete all duplicated
digits (135-7, but 139-41).
- Michael
On 2012/09/06 03:09, [email protected] wrote:
My suspicion is that it was to save space/typesetting time; there may
be a standard as well (isn't there always? <g>)
Grant
On September 5, 2012 at 9:15 AM Rick Quatro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Framers,
>
> This is more of a curiosity than anything. I was browsing the index
in a
> book last night and I noticed that at the end of page ranges, common
numbers
> are suppressed. For example 244-7 instead of 244-247 and 138-41
instead of
> 138-141. Is this simply to save space, or is there some kind of style
> recommendation for this? Thanks for any insight.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> 585-283-5045
> [email protected]
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