Re: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-24 Thread Mike Wickham
Why hurt Muslims' feelings with creative expressions such as Islamofascists? Why hurt Richard's feelings for his use of an innocuous political term? That term has no more stigma than calling someone a Democrat. You say labels hurt, yet had no problem trying to label Richard as an ahole.

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-23 Thread Nandini G
: general publication quiestion) To: Daniel Emory [EMAIL PROTECTED],Framers List framers@FrameUsers.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii snip Don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge fan of the US military (especially when they're killing Islamofascists

MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Wickham
>Why hurt Muslims' feelings with creative expressions such as >Islamofascists? Why hurt Richard's feelings for his use of an innocuous political term? That term has no more stigma than calling someone a Democrat. You say labels hurt, yet had no problem trying to label Richard as an ahole.

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-22 Thread Nandini G
t: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion) To: "Daniel Emory" ,"Framers List" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" Don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge fan of the US military (especially when they're killing Islamofascist

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-22 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
Maybe we should change it to "This page intentionally left almost completely blank," to be more technically accurate :) Regards, Shmuel Wolfson 052-763-7133 Combs, Richard wrote: Daniel Emory wrote: Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals.

RE: general publication quiestion

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
Your snip below deleted from my original post the main reason I gave for why intentionally blank pages should be unambiguously labeled. The snipped part was: The fact that, more and more, technical manuals are being delivered as computer files, not professionally printed and bound paper

Re: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. Unlike typical users of commercial products, most users of

RE: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. A valid point. Although some

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-20 Thread nancy carpenter
, Pennsylvania 15238 Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/18/2006 11:44 AM To: framers@frameusers.com cc: Subject:Re: general publication quiestion Too often readers will suspect that there was a printing error if there isn't SOME content

RE: general publication quiestion

2006-10-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: --- Charles Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe I'm not. I too have always considered it a strange paradox when I see the words This page intentionally left blank. But there is no need to use it.

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > The fact is that the US military is the only true laboratory > where technical documentation is subjected to extensive > post-publication review to determine its effectiveness in the > real world. Findings resulting from analyses of actual > foul-ups lead to continuing

OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-20 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: > Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing > commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech > writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain > blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. A valid point. Although

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-18 Thread Stuart Rogers
Susan Curtzwiler wrote: Hi all, Is there any hard and fast rule that when you have a blank left page before a chapter break that you have to label it as This page intentionally left blank. ? I just put a small version of the company logo at the end of the text of each chapter. Then it's

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-17 Thread Art Campbell
The short answer is no, no more than for any other book. Blank pages are expected and accepted in books that use the convention of starting chapters on right pages. I think the labels started being used years ago when military and mil-spec manuals were issued and updated with change pages.