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Subject:Re: Odd Pages From:"Virginia L. Krenn" <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:29:17 -0600
If anyone at NOTIS reads this list, this would be something that
you should consider doing. It used to drive us crazy not to have any
idea where we were in the documentation or how to get to where we
wanted to be.
At one point, we tried to remedy the situation by writing the
information in ourselves. But, then new documentation was issued.
Virginia Krenn
asdxvlk.okway.okstate.edu
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Subject: Odd Pages
Author: Win Day <winday -at- cml -dot- com> at SMTP
Date: 3/16/95 10:11 AM
Why is it ludicrous to start a chapter on a page other than 1? I just
convinced my client to move away from military-style page numbering
(2-6, 5-7) and _to_ continuous numbering throughout their manuals. That
means only Chapter 1 starts on page 1! Chapter 2 happens to start on
page 87 in the draft on my desk...
We do start chapters on *odd* pages, simply because we put tabbed
dividers between the chapters. And we use _VERY_ descriptive headers to
keep the readers aware of where they are in the manual. The header has
my client's logo in the top left corner. The top right corner has the
chapter name, over a horizontal line running from the logo to the right
margin, over the subsection name:
{LOGO} Getting Started
------------------------------------------------------------
Files and Directories
The chapter name is in 18 pt Helvetica; the subsection name is in 14 pt
Times Roman italic, matching the heading level formatting in the body of
text underneath.
New subsections start on new pages, but not necessarily on odd pages. It
seems to work so far - the client really likes it. We haven't released a
manual yet (first one's due out mid-April, and others will follow about
every 4-6 months) so we don't have any customer feedback yet.
Win Day
winday -at- cml -dot- com
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