Guest guest Posted August 5, 1999 Report Share Posted August 5, 1999 > In a message dated 8/5/99 10:23:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > suzykat@... writes: > > << > MPR capitalizes EVERYTHING, generic or not. It's my only gripe with this > otherwise handy-dandy resource. If you'll notice, even amoxicillin and > aspirin are capped. > >> > Correct, they do capitalize everything. I was kind of annoyed by this too, > but if you look at the first blue page in the back, it will tell you that if > the name is in italics, it is generic. Incidentally, vitamins is in italics. > Not capped in transcription. > Looks like they'd just give up and do it the way it SHOULD be, instead of going to all that trouble to do it incorrectly, and then explaining that it IS done incorrectly. Rather moronic, IMNSHO. ;-} I gathered that the italics were to differentiate, but I never found it in the fine print. Thanks for sharing that info. Suz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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