Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)

Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:41:55 -0800

Some design decisions are arbitrary, or based on intuition, anyway. A writer who needs a lot of hand-holding probably writes a lot of hand-holding into the manual. It would seem rather arbitrary to some of us.

On the matter of using "(Continued)", it would not take me more than one time, where I (or a reader) mis-interpreted a wrapped table, to conclude that using "(Continued)" is an element of good informational design. The cost of a mistake resulting from misreading a table might be a factor I would have to evaluate.
Mike Starr wrote:

Again, my whole point is that the use of "Continued..." is a waste of effort.

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