"the following" or nothing -- what is IM's preference? (was: "Next" or "the following"... )

[Pro TechWriter]

I looked it up. InfoMapping uses "in the following" (list, approach,
procedure, etc.) almost exclusively. They also use "below" a lot, which I
will not do in hard copy documentation. It's difficult enought to have
reasonable page endings with IM without having to anchor something to
something else in Word. Ack.

As far as the other comments, IM was used to train non-writers to do their
own documentation because they didn't have a technical writer at all. They
still prefer using the methodology for their documentation, so that means I
use it too. :-)

PT

On 12/11/06, Milan Davidovic <shl_ctf at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> --- Pro TechWriter <pro.techwriter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Everyone is trained in Information Mapping here, so
> > they seem to want more
> > at the end of the introductory sentence.
>
> Is this an interpretation of the IM approach, or an
> actual rule?
>
> Milan
> http://altmilan.blogspot.com
> http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2758
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