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Re: Heading Hierarchy for a Complex Manual

Subject: Re: Heading Hierarchy for a Complex Manual
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:32:19 -0800


Why kill yourself reinventing the wheel? APA template plug-ins for Word can be downloaded from the net for $30. That's a lot less than an hour of my time is worth, at least to me.

http://www.charm.net/~rps/

Gene Kim-Eng

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Turner" <royj -at- alltel -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:16 AM
Subject: Heading Hierarchy for a Complex Manual



I am in the process of editing a very long and complex manual. I am
writing the style guide, and I am on the section on heading hierarchy.
Except for the unwieldy APA guidelines, I haven't found any guidance on
the subject. I have the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, but I don't
see any examples or suggestions that relate to what I am doing. But I
used what was in the Chicago Manual of Style anyway and came up with
these levels of heading (this is for an online manual):


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Heading Hierarchy for a Complex Manual: From: Kirk Turner

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