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Subject:RE: Tables of contents, figures, and of tables From:Slager Timothy J <Timothy -dot- Slager -at- dematic -dot- com> To:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, 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 18:39:00 +0000
This is how we name them. (Obviously (and perhaps obsoletely) we still use them...)
Contents
Figures
Tables
I definitely prefer this having "List of.." or "Table of ..."
tims
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From: techwr-l-bounces+timothy -dot- slager=dematic -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+timothy -dot- slager=dematic -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
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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