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Re: Allocated chapter numbers for specific chapter content

Subject: Re: Allocated chapter numbers for specific chapter content
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:32:32 -0400




Broberg, Mats wrote:

Dick,

www.flirthermography.com


Mats,

Given that you are providing product manuals to an undifferentiated audience of professionals and amateurs, I think using a scheme that assigns a fixed chapter number to each topic and might result in empty chapters in some circumstances would only confuse your audience. Cameras are not aircraft and your manuals are not workday reference documents for full-time maintenance workers.

However, for the sake of your own sanity, it makes sense to have a master outline that accommodates everything you might ever want to tell users about, on any model, and generate your manuals consistently from that outline. If you push the optional features to the bottom of the outline, chances are that your chapter numbers are going to be quite consistent from camera to camera regardless.

Dick

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