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Subject:Re: Re: "Forward" referencing From:Marilynne Smith <marilyns -at- qualcomm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L, a list for all technical communication issues" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:05:43 -0700
This sounds like a work that would work on CD with lots of good hyperlinks.
Marilynne
At 12:34 PM 9/4/99 , Kat Nagel wrote:
>At 11:54 AM 09/01/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Has anybody ever run into this situation: an author wants to use what he
>>calls "forward" referencing--that is, he wants to reference figures in an
>>early section that actually appear in a later section.
>
>Yes. It's very common with complex academic publications, like textbooks
>or conference proceedings, especially medical textbooks where more than 20
>authors author can be involved, or proceedings where the same author
>presented more than one paper at the conference.
