When is postscript used

Personally I think P. FumbleFingers FumbleFingers 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. So should books written on computers, typewriter or with pen never have footnotes, or does it mean the author was too lazy to go back and edit the main body? I know PS and footnotes are not quite the same thing, but I think they could be used in similar ways.

Hugo: Footnotes are quite common in the kind of 'pop science' books I often read, but to be honest I don't really like them that much. I'm never sure when to break off from the main thread, so sometimes I never actually read them at all. I think it is certainly appropriate as a stylistic element in emails as well. Although the technical necessity of a post scriptum addition may be obsolete, placing something in a "P.

Sometimes I use P. But what I'm going to say in the P. That's the kind of sentence that you should probably be sending another email just to say that. But being a short sentence, it's not worth a hassle. If you want to put it in the body, you may write it as a By the way, write before signing. So putting it in the body doesn't really make it more organized. Some emails are carefully crafted prose. We use a P. We don't want to cover it in the body of the email because such a business-oriented note, from a communications standpoint, diminishes the emphasis we want to place on the act of charitable giving.

Don't assume email is always informal. Show 2 more comments. Community Bot 1. ESultanik ESultanik 2 2 bronze badges. Well I did specifically say never really 'appropriate' rather than just never appropriate , and I think you've identified some aspects of 'excusable' exceptions. I don't do work emails much these days, but I always preferred a second email to receiving one email with an unrelated addendum.

I do use it in emails if the email itself is a formal business message, but the recipient is also a friend outside work. This makes it easy for them to forward on work related content while stripping out personal stuff, eg. Attached are those reports your Director asked for, yada yada, regards, Rory.

You up for a beer after work? Rory Alsop: Haha glad I didn't work with you then. Maybe I'm anal, but I'd rather have the bit about the beer on a separate email. Or a call would have been better. Besides, what if I wanted to forward the work stuff to others? No thanks. I have also added details on how to get funding When you have finished and signed a letter and then add a note on the end with a P.

In this letter, and especially in the postscript to the second edition of it, Newman finally silenced all cavillers as to his not being really at ease within the Roman Church. Instead, use the Edit button to add a postscript , or correct your typo.

To use color in the output postscript can use three different coloring command. When desktop and computerized publishing began to take off, Helvetica went along for the ride, as the early Adobe Postscript format included it as one of the original four fonts along with Times, Courier, and Symbol.

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