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>Our company develops a simulation product that is highly customizable. The
>product has now grown to the size where we have decided to produce two
>manuals:
>
>1. A user guide
>2. A customization guide
>
>We feel we've divided the information between the two guides intuitively.
>However, we are concerned that our user's will not be able to easily find
>information if they look in the wrong guide. Here's what we think the
>options are:
>
>1. Each manual has it's own index. The user's would be required to learn in
>which guide they should look for information.
>2. Several key terms are indexed in each guide that say to see the other
>guide without referencing a specific page number.
>3. Make the guides a two volume set with continuing page numbers so the
>index can be completely comprehensive.
>
>Has anyone else faced a similar decision? We're not sure which method of
>indexing/organizing the information will be most useful for our readers.
I vote for option#3, since it is the best-suited solution from a users
point of view
A continuing page numbering is not necessary per se.
My 2 eurocents
Kees de Bondt
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