RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for

Subject: RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:55:25 -0700

Al Geist wrote:

> I'm on the fence for including or not including chapter numbers with
page
> numbers. Many of my "customers" insist on them as they feel it makes
it
> easier to locate specific information or procedures in the printed
> documents. <snip>

Actually, it makes it _harder_. If I'm holding a 300-page book and you
tell me the information I need is on page 177, I can get there pretty
quickly. But if you tell me it's on page 7-19, it will take me much
longer because I don't know how many chapters there are or how long they
are.

But if the customers won't listen to reason, you either make them happy
or find a better class of customers. ;-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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Follow-Ups:

References:
Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Nancy Allison
RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Dan Goldstein
Re: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Robert Lauriston
RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Leonard C. Porrello
RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Pinkham, Jim
RE: Chapter-page numbering, reasons for: From: Al Geist

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