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Subject:Re: Are chapter numbers necessary??? From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:42:36 -0700
Chapter numbers do more than set a hierarchy; they define the location of
information in your book.
If it's really important to you to stress that the book is NOT a work that
needs to be read front-to-back, tell them so. Write an intro or a forward
or an "about this book" section or whatever.
But leave the chapter numbers in. It will make the book more
user-friendly, and will allow people to locate pertinent information much
more easily.
Just take deep cleansing breaths, and think of the numbers as navigational
aids, rather than literary chains of oppression.
- Keith Cronin
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