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Subject:Re: Blank pages From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:22:19 -0700
>Elna Tymes[SMTP:etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM] wrote:
>>>(Bev said)Why have blank pages at all? Why must a chapter begin on the
>>>right?
><snip>The gist is that most people look to the choice on the right first,
>then
>to other choices. It also follows that if you want a chapter to begin on
>a right page, and the previous chapter ends on a right page, one needs
>to insert a blank page facing the new chapter's first page.
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Ahh. That explains it then. I'm left-handed.
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>Misti Tucker USAET(UTC -04:00)[SMTP:mtucker2 -at- E-MAIL -dot- COM] wrote:
>>>It needn't, of course, but having all chapters begin on a right facing
>page makes it ever so much easier to browse for the material you're
looking for. Then again, maybe I'm anal retentive.<<
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Naah. If that were true, you would have hyphenated anal-retentive. ;-)
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