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Subject:Re: Contents at a Glance From:Alexia Prendergast <alexiap -at- SEAGATESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:09:01 -0400
How about a regular table of contents... then a table with
a short description of the structure of the book, by chapter,
in the preface? (Where we also describe typographical conventions,
set reader expectations, etc.) I think this would be less
confusing that two TOCs, yet you still can convey the "big
picture" information.
--
Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com
>----------
>Salan Pazurik schrieb:
>
>> Is there any merit to providing two tables of contents--a "Contents at
>> a
>> Glance" and "Contents in Detail"?
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