Re: Are chapter numbes a thing of the past?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

In one of my previous companies, we created documents using standard 
chapters, which varied with the options selected by the customer.  Each 
product would ship with a documents customized according to the product 
options, which were selected automatically by the product's 
configuration tool.  Most of our customers ordered more than one 
version, and to allow the documents to automatically repaginate as the 
options changed would have resulted in information that was common to 
all being on different-numbered pages in different documents. Using 
chapter-numbering ensured that the only chapters with page variations 
were those where the content varied.

WRT chapter numbering, in the aircraft industry, it's common practice to 
refer to instructions and requirements by chapter and paragraph, i,e, 
"paragraph 3.2.1.21."  Submit a document numbered in any other way to 
the FAA and they'll reject it right back to you.  I haven't worked on 
any DoD or DoE projects for almost 20 years now, but I'd be willing to 
bet things are still like that there as well.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Keith Hansen <KRH -at- weiland-wfg -dot- com> 
wrote:
> Question: Is there any situation where pagination such as 5-23, 7-89,
> 11-27, etc. is preferable? Why?

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