RE: referring to images was RE: Elementwise userguide

[Ben Davies <bdavies -at- imris -dot- com>]

I put figure references at the end of instructions in brackets. This makes the reference stand out on the page a little better, and allows me to keep a consistent convention for all references in the same manual. 

For example: 

Continue routing the cable from the base of the enclosure to the control panel (figure x). 





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From: techwr-l-bounces+bdavies=imris -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+bdavies=imris -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Kay A. Pentecost
Sent: January-10-13 2:45 PM
To: Combs,Richard; Ken Stitzel; Tech Whirl
Subject: referring to images was RE: Elementwise userguide

Hi, Richard, 

My apologies for not changing the subject. In answer to your question "how is this related to Elementwise," it isn't.  My bad.

I agree that "Figure" is more popular, I just inherited "Exhibit" and wondered if others were using it.

Thanks,

Kay Pentecost



-----Original Message-----
>From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
>Sent: Jan 10, 2013 3:09 PM
>To: "Kay A. Pentecost" <kayp -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com>, Ken Stitzel 
><kstitzel -at- symplified -dot- com>, Tech Whirl <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>Subject: RE: Elementwise userguide
>
>Kay A. Pentecost wrote:
> 
>> What is the standard now for referring to images in the file?  Word 
>> won't make a link to a page number, and I've been using (see above) 
>> when the image is above the text.
>> 
>> Also, for User Manual type documents, are people now using "Figure" 
>> for captions?  The document I inherited uses "Exhibit."
>
>How is this related to "Elementwise" user guides? 
>
>In any case, Word certainly lets you create page-number 
>cross-references. And I suspect that different people use different 
>terms for their figure captions, although I'd bet that "Figure" is more 
>popular than "Exhibit" by several orders of magnitude. :-)
>
>Richard G. Combs
>Senior Technical Writer
>Polycom, Inc.
>richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>303-223-5111
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