Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?

Subject: Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?
From: Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:15:47 -0700 (PDT)

And, conversely, I have seen larger systems documented with not enough heading levels. In such situations, there are often "big hunker" sections that really need to be partitioned into sub-sections.

The real question is how does one partition a system into right size chunks of info (hint, evaluate the interface complexity). Then, if you have, for example, 500 right size chunks, you can either create one doc to maybe seven levels of headings, or three docs each to maybe three levels of heading.

Generic Richard


Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
Not always. It can also be a simple case of poor judgment in
organizing information. I've seen extremely simple systems documented
in a most unnecessarily complex manner.

On 10/11/07, Richard Lewis wrote:
> Asking how many levels of indents and heads are reasonable is asking how big of a system is it reasonable to document.
>
> Generic Richard
>
> Krista Van Laan wondering about: Current thinking on heading levels.
> Can it all be done with 4 levels, or do we need 6 or more?

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