Re: Pagination issues - pros & cons

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Broberg, Mats" <mabr -at- flir -dot- se>
I would be interested to hear what pagination regimes you use and why -
e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on through the whole manual, or 1-1, 1-2 etc for
the pages in Chapter One, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 etc for the pages in Chapter Two
etc.

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Using the latter scheme  (1) tells readers where a specific page is located 
in the book, and (2) allows readers to sense where they are in the book when 
they're reading specific pages.

If people use a manual frequently, they often memorize what each chapter 
covers, and it's much easier to get one's bearings by glancing at the bottom 
(or top) corner of a page to see where one is than having to leaf backward 
or forward to establish what chapter one is in. I realize that headers and 
footers may well also exist on each page, but having the chapter number and 
the page number together in one little nougat is helpful, in my opinion.

Bonnie Granat
www.granatedit.com 


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