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

["Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> And, conversely, I have seen larger systems documented with not enough
> heading levels.  In such situations, there are often "big hunker" sections
> that really need to be partitioned into sub-sections.

Absolutely. Nothing like reading Moby Dick just to get to information
about how to throw a harpoon. ;)

> The real question is how does one partition a system into right size chunks
> of info (hint, evaluate the interface complexity).   Then, if you have, for
> example, 500 right size chunks, you can either create one doc to maybe seven
> levels of headings, or three docs each to maybe three levels of heading.

I guess that question was left unanswered for a reason. ;)

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