Re: giving appendices chapter numbers

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

To me, numbering appendices as chapters is unfortunate. For one thing,
in documentation it is quite possible that at some point in the future
there may be additional chapters added, forcing the material to be
renumbered in the appendices. For another, material that properly
belongs in an appendix should be there for a particular reason and not
simply be additional chapters...or else they should be part of the
corpus of the work to begin with.

The folks who promote the practice are likely as not "unclear on the
concept" of what function an appendix serves in a book...God only
knows what function it serves in the human body, though, other than
the continued enrichment of our medical system!

David 




On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:30:34 -0700, Thomas -dot- Burke -at- bbc -dot- co -dot- uk
<Thomas -dot- Burke -at- bbc -dot- co -dot- uk> wrote:
> 
> Elizabeth,
> 
> <quote>
> "Has anyone ever seen (well-edited) books or documents with a table of
> contents like this:
> 1.0     Title of Section 1
> 2.0     Title of Section 2
> 3.0     Title of Section 3
> 4.0     Appendix 1
> 5.0     Appendix 2
> 6.0     Appendix 3
> <\quote>

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