Re: about use of single bullets

[Daniel Friedman <daniel -dot- friedman42 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

To further what Tony is saying, I will use a single bullet list for a one
step procedure. It keeps the consistency of having procedures be indented,
but without the weirdness of having a numbered list that only has item '1. '

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

> Considering that there could be a chance that bulleted lists could be
> automatically generated, I'm of the mind that single item lists are
> acceptable. This holds especially true of the other sections all use
> bullets. It looks odd when three sections appear parallel except for one,
> because of blind adherence to a academic rule that breaks the visual model.
>
> But of course, it all depends.
>
> -Tony
>
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 17:26 Vincent <vincentpr -at- trfnova -dot- com> wrote:
>
> >    Soliciting your opinions (or declaration of practice)...
> >    I know the style rule of thumb not to use a bullet for a single item.
> >    However for a two page flyer, I have several subheaders with multiple
> >    items bulleted -- except for the first one which has only one item.
> >
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