Re: Capitals after WARNING:

Subject: Re: Capitals after WARNING:
From: Lynn Gold <figmo -at- RAHUL -dot- NET>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 02:18:42 -0700

Jennifer Kraus wrote:
>
>Kind of a nit-picky question...
>
>I'm editing a manual. A typical warning looks this way:
>
><bold>WARNING:<bold> Do not do such and such a thing...yatta yatta =
>yatta. This may result in blah, blah.
>
>Here's the question...is the first word after the heading capitalized?

Yes.

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