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Subject:RE: Chapter summaries at start of doc: yes/no? From:"Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:36:58 -0500
We have a table that shows a summary of all the chapters. One column
with the chapter title, one with the descriptive sentence about what's
in it.
We create our docs in Framemaker, and we link directly to the both the
chapter title and the description at the beginning of the chapter. Once
it's set up, there's no additional maintenance as it is kept current
whenever the cross-refs are updated.
Carla
cmartinek|zebra|com
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Subject: RE: Chapter summaries at start of doc: yes/no?
>My template also calls for some introductory text immediately after the
>chapter title and before the first Head1 pgf.
I'm actually talking about summaries of all the chapters at the
beginning of the document. The ones right before the chapter begins
tend to be updated, because they're more noticeable.
Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author
exony
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