[Year 12 IPM] formats & conventions

[Mike Brookes]

Hi All
To clarify/be picky..right aligning/decimal 
aligning/centering/justifying is formating data - the convention is in 
which format is customarily used to display numeric data-- i.e. the 
convention is to format numbers so that the decimal points line up or 
the convention is to format currency with a leading $ sign and two 
digits after the decimal point.
Same with headings - displaying in bold/italic etc is formating, the 
convention might be to format headings in bold, 14pt Arial, centred on 
the page.

Yours in Confusionism
Mike Brookes

Mark Kelly wrote:
> Hi Margaret
> 
> I tell my kids that formats are totally different to conventions.
> 
> Formats define how information is structured and laid out (e.g. in a 
> graph, a table, as text, as a web page, as an icon).
> 
> Most conventions indicate how information is formatted or presented 
> (e.g. bold headings, right-justified columns of numbers, using page 
> numbering, underlined web links, how envelopes are addressed).
> Other conventions dictate what content appears, such as the Tax Office's 
> mandatory conventions on what has to appear for a piece of paper to pass 
> as a legitimate tax invoice.
> 
> So, a table is a FORMAT for presenting statistics.  Right-aligning the 
> columns of numbers in the table, using bold row/column headings and 
> providing row/column totals would be CONVENTIONS.
> 
>