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Does anyone know of any books or articles that discuss readable
table formats? I have one article--"Table Construction: Do's and
Don'ts", by Eva Dukes, from the March '89 issue of IEEE Transactions
on Professional Communications--and the Chicago Manual of Style has
some good examples of tables that IMHO are fairly readable. But, I
need information.
o Indexing Requirements
Supposedly, there's an IEEE standard for software users manuals that
says an index is mandatory for documents of 40 pages or longer. Does
anyone know *which* IEEE standard this is??
Thanks!
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Pam Tatge, Member Group Technical Staff
Texas Instruments Semiconductor Group, Houston
pamt -at- steinbeck -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com
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