Why did they publish 'blank' pages
Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>Can anybody shed some light on the origin and use of the term "This space
>>intenionally left blank"?
>
>
> It's so you know that the page isn't blank as the result of a printing
> error. The perfect example is one of my Borland Prolog manuals. It has a
> page that was Unintentionally left blank!
Indeed, and as I sometimes take pains to point out, the spaces left
"INTENTIONALLY BLANK" are not blank at all. My preferred notation which
IIRC I first saw in an ICL manual is : "This page intentionally contains
no information" or words to that effect.
-- hbp
Received on Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:00:00 GMT
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