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Re: How do you prefer to deal with long flowcharts?
Subject:Re: How do you prefer to deal with long flowcharts? From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 May 2002 16:01:04 -0400
Hey, an EASY question!!
There is an old standard for this that works just fine.Whatcha do is this:
Break the flowchart into page-size sections, so that you are not cutting any of the logical elements (boxes, in other words), but are severing one or more lines.
Attach a small circle to each broken line end (so there are two circles per break).
Label corresponding circles with the same identifier. (In the past I've used cursive Greek letters--what you get when you type lowercase letters on your English keyboard--but you could use Latin alphabet letters, roman or arabic numerals, whatever suits your fancy, I guess.)
Anyone familiar with standard flowcharting symbols should have no trouble connecting the, er, circles.
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From: SIANNON -at- VISUS -dot- JNJ -dot- com
Reply-To: SIANNON -at- VISUS -dot- JNJ -dot- com
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:41:33
>
>Greetings!
>
>While I've already dealt with my specific example of this phenomenon, I'd
>really like to hear how other people addressed the issue, since I can't
>help but feel there's got to be "A Better Way"(tm) to deal with it:
>
>How do you prefer to incorporate long, complex, branching flowcharts in a
>document, when they won't fit on a single page, legibly?
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