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Subject:Re: columns From:Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 2 May 2001 13:10:05 -0500
Maybe it's just my newspaper training (swat! bad boy!) but when I'm going
down an column and a full-page graphic interrupts me, I go back to the top
of the next column first, and suffer a bit of disorientation before
realizing I should have gone on past the graphic.
To be more specific, if I am reading a two-column page with two full-width
interruptions in the text I:
Start at the top of column 1.
When I encounter graphic A, I look to the top of column 2, expecting the
continuation there.
There's even enough residual effect that when I pick it up in column 1
below graphic A and continue down to graphic B I will start to check column
2 beginning below graphic A before I catch myself and proceed down below
graphic B in column.
But that's just me. YMMV.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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