June 2009 archive
Cleaner, greener publishing
June 11, 2009
It’s not surprising that publishing has a dramatic effect on the environment. Books are made of paper and paper is made from trees. But it’s not just the paper used in books, catalogues, brochures and reports that impacts on the environment. During the editing and production process where the print project is fine tuned, there …
Writing numbers
June 3, 2009
Numbers in general text
For general descriptive or narrative text, use words for numbers from zero to one hundred and the numerical form for 101 and above.
Numbers in technical or scientific writing
If the document is for a technical or scientific audience, numbers between one and nine are spelt out and numbers over 10 are written in …
