Re: FDA and the ragged right margin

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

When writing docs for submission to the FDA,
the only support needed for their "suggestions"
is "because we said so."

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
> We've discussed margins and readability in the past on this list. I 
> was
> looking for unrelated information in the FDA Guidance on Medical 
> Device
> Patient Labeling (2001), and I happened upon the following suggestion:
> "Justify the left-hand margin. Use ragged right margins."
>
> They include references about readability, but they don't specify 
> which
> reference they used for this suggestion.

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