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. Mike

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. Mike

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

2006-10-23 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 manual

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

2006-10-23 Thread Nandini G
ect: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion) To: "Daniel Emory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Framers List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" Don't get me wrong -- I'm a huge fan

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.

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

2006-10-22 Thread Nandini G
cists, how do we stop people from coining derogatory phrases using our religions, ethnicity, and color? This is a land of the free and the brave. However, some self-regulation is in order. Where is the moderator? In response to: From: "Combs, Richard" Subject: OT: MIL specs (was RE:

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

2006-10-21 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

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 so

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 MI

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 documen

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 som

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

2006-10-20 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 MI

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

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. > ===

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-20 Thread nancy carpenter
raft Park Pittsburgh, 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

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-20 Thread David Tinsley
Hi Susan, In the field of classified documentation the phrase "This page is intentionally blank" is used to denote that there is no content on that page and it is not a printing mitake. The strange thing is that the blank page also carried the classification so you ended up with a page classifie

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-19 Thread Doug
Too often readers will suspect that there was a printing error if there isn't SOME content on the page. Having headers and footers on the page with no text between them only makes this type of person even more prone to suspicion. Putting an "Intentionally Blank" notice on the page helps to reduc

RE: general publication quiestion

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel Emory
--- 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. ==

RE: general publication quiestion

2006-10-18 Thread Charles Beck
s this frequently come up as an issue? 'Tis a mystery to me... Chuck Beck "I speak only for myself." -Original Message- Subject: Re: general publication quiestion I never use "this page intentionally blank". It never made any sense to me, as by putting text there

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 obv

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Swallow
I never use "this page intentionally blank". It never made any sense to me, as by putting text there it's no longer blank. On 10/16/06, Susan Curtzwiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Is there any hard and fast rule that when you have a blank left page before a chapter break that you h

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. Beca

Re: general publication quiestion

2006-10-17 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
No, not really, except in certain circles. The main thing is regarding printed/photocopied material, that if you see a blank (totally blank) page, that you do not suspect the printing/photocopying mechanism of skipping a page, which was rather usual some years ago, when printers and photocopying