Punctuation geekery

[allana]

How would you grammar mavens punctuate this? The bullet-points, rather than the punctuation of the sentence fragments--I've got plenty to say about that. Although, feel free to chip in!

In The Box:

• A power cable
  
• Single 15cm blue SATA cable
  
• Single Black floppy cable
  
• A pair of metal feet
  
• Drive rails for 3.5" hard disks and a 5.25" optical drive
  
• Two driver CD's - one 32-bit and one 64-bit
  
• RAID driver floppy disk (both 32-bit and 64-bit drivers)
  
• Four bits of vibration dampening rubber
  
• Molex to floppy power adapter
  
• All the manuals/installation guides you could ever need
  

I am personally leaning towards lower-case opening letter (where appropriate) and no punctuation at the end of sentences. Or alternatively, a comma at the end of each line, and finish up with a full-stop on the last line.

I'll be an expert in PC hardware by the end of the day at this rate.

P.S. If you were curious, it's the spec. for a Shuttle SD31P. (No, I don't know what it is.)

Comments

[silentinflames.livejournal.com]

In your example I would use lower-case opening letters where appropriate and no further punctuation. This is what I usually do as well.

Except if the list is part of a sentence, like here:

I usually use

- lower-case opening,
- no commas, (and)
- no full-stop

when listing items using bullet-points.

Make sense?

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Yep, that makes sense. Your example was great btw!

[feelforfaith.livejournal.com]

I would use lower-case and no punctuation at the end of the line, too. Although when when it comes to lines which are full sentences (like the last one here)I feel they should start with upper case and end with a period, so I usually agonize over what to do with them, lol. But since it's only one in this case, I would still use no punctuation and lower case.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Thank-you, Kasia!