Re: [seul-edu] Beta draft of initial public announcement for Tuesday

[William Abernathy <william@inch.com>]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, William Abernathy wrote:
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>>Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>>
>>>>open source/free software. Composed of twenty-six open-resource-focused
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Use digits (26) instead of "twenty-six".
>>>
> 
>>The Chicago Manual of Style disagrees. Numbers under 100 get spelled out. Stet,
>>unless someone has an AP Guide that disagrees. (AP trumps Chicago on press
>>releases, and of course I only have a Chicago.)
>>
> 
> Sorry, I was going to mention that. This is from my AP manual. There are a
> wide variety of different ways (i.e., ages, congressional districts,
> recipes, speeds, etc.), but for uses not covered by the AP manual: "Spell
> out whole numbers below 10, use figures for 10 and above."
> 


AP wins!

> 
>>>>successful free software deployments in schools from Pasco, Washington to
>>>>New York City, from Zacatecas, Mexico, to Aldgate, South Australia and to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Comma after "Australia".
>>>
> 
>>Not on my copy.
>>
> 
> I meant it needs a comma after the clause. (I deleted the original
> posting, but if I recall it continued with "and to read ...")
> 


My copy ends the sentence there, so I think you're correcting someone else's edit.

--WA


>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://www.reedmedia.net/
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