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~|>From: Christensen, Kent [mailto:lkchris -at- sandia -dot- gov]
~|>re: When you number your documents, how many of you begin
~|>page numbering on
~|>the title page?
~|>
~|>Seems like a corollary question might be ... how many of you
~|>list the title
~|>page in the table of contents? How many of you list the
~|>table of contents
~|>in the table of contents? It does make me feel good to see
~|>a "page 1" in
~|>the table of contents. I could be spanked for this view, couldn't I?
Kent, consider yourself spanked...some say I do a fine job of it :~)
Seems like your corollary questions were discussed recently, but perhaps
that was on another list. Anyway, fwiw I count the title page as page i
(front matter has roman numerals) and the first page of chapter 1 as
page 1 (text has arabic numerals). Neither the title page nor the TOC is
listed in the TOC. IMO anyone who has to use the TOC to find the title
page or the TOC needs more help than my docs can provide.
Sarah Bane
Day job: Technical Writer, SpectrumRetail Corporation
--Parent company to the ProphetLine family of retail technology
products---
Night job: Associate Instructor, Westark College
sarah -dot- bane -at- spectrumretail -dot- com
sbane -at- westark -dot- edu
Opinions expressed are my own and not endorsed by SpectrumRetail or by
Westark.
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