Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?

[Eva Whitley <Eva -dot- Whitley -at- noaa -dot- gov>]

Van Laan, Krista wrote:
> Are there any guidelines anywhere for what is a reasonable number of
> headers and indents?
>
> We have a page layout that includes a couple of outdented headers. Body
> text is 3 levels of indentation, which causes the left alignment to be
> in any of 5 places. Some of the team have expressed a desire for another
> 2 or 3 levels of indents. I am not sure how and why these would be used,
> so I'd like to be open to this, but am interested in doing some research
> before I make a recommendation.
>
> I'm also wondering about current thinking on heading levels. Can it all
> be done with 4 levels, or do we need 6 or more?
>
> This layout will show up in online help and PDF documents. I'd
> appreciate input but also references if possible.
>
>
>   

I just worked on a manual that had 6 levels of headings. We did three 
levels of headings at a numbered level since the bulk of the document 
needed just 3 levels (numbered 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, then 4 levels of outline 
levels (1., a., 1) a), but fortunately we never got down to the 7th level.

Since a 7th level exists on our templates, it may be used on some 
documents; fortunately, I haven't had to work on anything with that 
level of detail. --Eva Whitley

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