RE: TOC article in INTERCOM -- things that made me go "HUH??"

["David Downing" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

<<At the same time, it must be close enought to the
information it reflects so that when someone goes to the page, they don't
think they are in the wrong section. >>

That's pretty much why I think the wording should match exactly.  I've encountered TOCs where the wording isn't exactly the same, and I always have to stop an say, "Hey, did I go to the right page?  Well, it looks close enough.  Yeah, I guess I'm on the right page."  I don't like having to do that, and I'm guessing other users don't like it either.

<<OTOH, my TOC always match the headings word for word becuase it's such a
pain in the butt to manually change something that is so easy to automate.>>

Now *that's* a potentially problematic way of looking at it -- although it seems like that's how a lot of people look at it these days.  I, and other people I know of, have had the experience of complaining about some arrangement we don't like, and being told, "The computer does it that way."




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