Re: List of Figures (LOF) and List of Tables (LOT) in Software User Guides

["Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- net -dot- au>]

> Does anyone have comments about including LOT /
> LOFs in software user references (print / PDF)
> from a usablity point of view?
...
> I guess it's out of habit from my background in
> the environmental sciences, but I find the LOT's
> useful. The LOFs are useful in creating the doc
> for consistency of naming convention style, for
> marking which ones have been updated, and jumping
> around within the doc.

I don't understand the last sentence. Useful for whom?
Useful where? In software user guides, or in scientific
reference books?

My comment is, if you have analyzed your audience
and their needs, and you are convinced that such lists
would be useful to them (not to you), then of course 
you should include them. I personally can't think of 
a case where I have ever looked for one in a software 
user guide, but I can imagine contexts in which they 
might be useful, particularly in engineering specifications.

-- 
Michael West
Melbourne, Australia


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