RE: doc release numbering

["Patterson, Jan" <Jan -dot- Patterson -at- esph -dot- com>]

Paul --

Does the document itself have a number? Sometimes companies have P/N
(product numbers) that go on a manual for a product, or communications
departments have their own numbering scheme for their communications
products. I'm guessing that's not the case here; otherwise, there would
probably be a convention for revision numbers, such as P/N 22222/1,
where /1 is the revision number.

An alternative is to use an edition number, version number, or revision
number on the document. Your second iteration of the doc could be
Edition 2 or Revision 1. You can track the edition/revision numbers and
dates on the copyright page. 

jan.

Jan E. Patterson
Senior Technical Writer
Environmental Systems Products
Tucson, Arizona


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Due to things beyond my control, we (I) had to turn out a doc set last
week for a new hardware product, and next I will have to turn out
another (updated) doc set for the same product.  The product name/number
have not changed.

Is there any sort of standard for numbering versions of the docs, if the
product is not changing?

I have not dealt with this question before.

The voice(s) of experience would be welcome.

Thanks.

best,
Paul
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