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OTOH, figure or table numbers allow you to bracket what you're looking for.
For example, the text tells you to look for the "WHATEVER Parameters" table.
You flip forward or backward in the text to the "WHATSTHIS Perimeters"
table. Is that ahead of or behind the "WHATEVER Parameters" table? If the
text tells you to see Table 34 and you flip backward to Table 25, you know
you need to go forward.
Cheers!
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Goldstein [mailto:jgoldstein -at- exagrid -dot- com]
Subject: RE: Omitting Table and Figure Numbers?
I think of it this way. When I do a search on a PDF book, or even scan a
printed book, I tend to look for phrases, headings, labels, etc because
I'm looking for a specific type of information. If I'm looking for the
parameters for the WHATEVER command, I probably would search for
"WHATEVER parameters" rather than Table 34 (or was that Table 334? How
does one remember that?). Even in a list of Tables, the numbers don't
have meaning until I find the phrase I need. And, with full text search
being my primary mode of finding things these days, the figure/table
number is probably not the first thing that comes to my mind.
