Re: Another Newbie question about procedures

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> I  had only put a cross reference to a "heading title".  Your
> example is what I will do from now on.
> 
> I have seen numerous references in some document  that said "See
> page n.", :See the figure on the next page", "This  table".

The problem with referencing only by section title is that when you
have a volume that has several hundred or several thousand pages,
you'll go loony trying to find where that section is.

In the case of my x-reference format, yes, it is long. However, it is
that way because I have multiple chapters in a book and I start from
page one in each chapter. I could use something like 3-1 instead of
using the name of the chapter, except I have 10 volumes and each
volume will have at least three chapters, some four or five. If I was
to use 3-1, there might be the confusion of "which" 3-1.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

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