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Kari Alt asked:
> Our Technical Communications department is looking into the possibility
> of using a few of the features from the Information Mapping format. The
> main issue we cannot agree on is the use of the lines separating each
> section.
I'm in the "no lines" camp for the very reasons you mentioned, Kari. I
find, in trying to use IM materials, that the lines are distracting and
actually hinder me in finding what I want, so I always use white space
instead. In a document with long (over a page) sections I wouldn't find
the lines at all objectionable, but in my own work, they would usually appear
several times per page.
Misti Tucker
Technical Communication mta -at- cyberspace -dot- org (h)
& Help System Design mtucker2 -at- e-mail -dot- com (w)
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