RE: Web Writing: Numbers - spell out or not?

Subject: RE: Web Writing: Numbers - spell out or not?
From: Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:47:43 -0700 (PDT)

--- Bob Morrisette <Robert -dot- Morrisette -at- Sun -dot- COM> wrote:
> I have engineers who insist I write numbers like four (4).
> To me this clutters the page and is harder to read.
>
> How can I convince people that four is sufficient?

I usually say something diplomatic like: "I'm the writer. I make these
decisions, and this is how it's going to be."

I don't tell them how to do engineering; they don't tell me how to do writing.

Next!

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Tom Murrell
Lead Technical Writer
Alliance Data Systems
Columbus, Ohio
mailto:trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com
Personal Web Page - http://home.columbus.rr.com/murrell/

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