RE: Chapter summaries at start of doc: yes/no?

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

>2. Don't know how the index tells me what's in a chapter.

If where to find something isn't obvious from the ToC, I generally skip
straight to the index.  Anything that I have to actually +read+ gets
pretty much ignored.  I wasn't aware whether other people acted the same
way.

>3. If the summary isn't being updated, update it to reflect the changes

> that got made to the rest of the chapter rather than ditching the
summary.

Obviously when I +notice+ that the summary hasn't been updated, I do.
I've found, however, especially when working with others, that
forgetting to update the summary to reflect changes made is a fruitful
source of errors.

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony

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