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Well, I know it depends, and what I was after was exactly your personal
opinion what it depends on... :)
Our manuals are generated from an XML repository, and delivered Wire-O
bound to the customer. The manuals are revised several times a year
since existing product models change during their life-cycle. However,
each customer will only get one revision of the manual, which reflects
the state the product was in at the time of the shipping.
At the moment I use lower case roman for preliminary pages and page
number 1 on the first page of Chapter 1.
Best regards
Sincerely,
Mats Broberg
Technical Documentation Manager
www.flirthermography.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net]
> Sent: den 17 september 2004 12:53
> To: Broberg, Mats
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Pagination issues - pros & cons
> Okay, boys and girls. All together now. On three. One. Two. Three.
>
> <choral shout>IT DEPENDS.</choral shout>
>
> Mats, is your manual issued in a looseleaf binder? Do you send out
> individual chapters as they are updated? Is your product in early
> releases, with the design still subject to constant churning and
> revision? If so, use chapter-page numbering. Are you providing
> documentation to a stable user base that is accustomed to this
> convention in their industry? If so, use chapter-page
> numbering. Are you
> working in MS Word with a huge document that has to be managed in
> separate chapter files in order to remain stable? If so, use
> chapter-page numbering.
>
> Otherwise, I'd say use lowercase roman for your frontmatter and start
> chapter 1 on page 1.
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