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Re: Is indenting subheadings and subtext current practice? Is it useful?
Subject:Re: Is indenting subheadings and subtext current practice? Is it useful? From:Jo Baer <jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com> To:Jennifer Laiks <jlaiks -at- prioritycall -dot- com> Date:Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:18:39 -0600
We just use different type sizes to distinguish the heading levels. We
don't think anyone reads the manuals anyway, so it probably doesn't
matter. ;-)
> We were wondering if most people indent different levels of text? Is it
> more current to just use different sizes of headers? Has anyone seen
> articles/statistics on what degree of indentation makes text clearer for
> readers?
