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Subject:RE: Page break as local formatting permitted? From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:"SB" <sylvia -dot- braunstein -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Jay Maechtlen" <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net> Date:Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:42:01 -0700
I think it comes down to what Gene said. This isn't really a technical
issue. You need to work out who is the boss. If I prefer something one
way and my boss wants it another, I'll offer him reasons as to why my
way is preferable, but if he still prefers his way, then his way it
is--no questions, no hard feelings. Of course, there are limits to this,
especially pertaining to ethics. However, ethics have never been an
issue in my years as a technical writer.
Leonard
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Subject: Re: Page break as local formatting permitted?
Well, I may not have been clea on this, he wants to add the page break
to
one heading occasionally (wwhen needed) but not to the whole style. My
concern is that as soon as you will need to update the styles,
everything
will get messed up. I have experience that in the past. However, he says
that "we don't need to update the syles".
On 6/26/08, Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net> wrote:
>
> SB wrote:
>
>> There was this long thread about the best way to do a page break in
MS
>> Word
>> (we are working with Word 2003).
>>
>> The new technical writer feels that it is permitted to do a page
break
>> "before" as part of a heading style but I told him that this is
>> essentially
>> local formatting and therefore, we should not use that. He said that
at
>> times, local formatting is permitted.
>>
>> What is the general opinion about this?
>>
>
> I have no problem with including 'page break before' in a heading
style.
> In fact, when you add it to the style it is no longer 'local
formatting',
> right?
>
> That's usually a reasonable way to format chapter heads or major
section
> heads.
>
> I almost always assign 'keep with next' to heading styles.
>
> imnsho
>
> Jay
>
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