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Subject:Re: Tables of contents, figures, and of tables From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:52:37 -0700
The heading I use for the TOC is "Contents." It's not a table in the
sense people use the word these days.
Lists of figures and tables are obsolete, a holdover from the days
when the limitations of typesetting, printing, and bookbinding meant
you couldn't put them anywhere you wanted or automatically insert the
correct page number in a cross-reference. That said, if I had to
create such lists, I'd head them "Figures" and "Tables."
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