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Subject:Why a Table of Figures? From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Mon, 11 Sep 1995 17:43:20 +0800
Is a Table of Figures necessary?
Usually a Table of Contents or Index is meant to help you navigate to
places of interest in the text -- the TOC to a heading or sub-heading,
the Index to one or more occurrences of a key word or phrase. When would
the reader need to look up the name and page number of a screen dump?
If I left out the Table of Figures, would the reader be worse off? Does
it matter what the figures are? all screen dumps? all diagrams? some of
each?
Thanks
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