Re: Chapter first page always recto?

Subject: Re: Chapter first page always recto?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:16:38 -0800

I did that years ago. Unless it's common for your users to print out
whole books using duplex printers, it makes sense to get rid of all
the book-oriented stuff. To me that generally means:

- no left / right formatting
- title page is page 1 and page numbering is strictly sequential
- no blank pages
- no sidebars or multiple columns
- all paragraph styles start at the left margin
- no chapter numbers
- no numbered headings
- no table and figure captions
- no lists of tables and figures

I can't even remember what they call that style where the headings
start at the margin but the paragraph styles are all indented.


On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> Have any of you dispensed with having every chapter start on the recto
> page?
> I've seen a few recent books that start recto or verso, whichever.
> My thinking is, for every "Get rid of this blank page!!!" comment from
> in-house reviewers, there's probably an equal number of users who are
> also puzzled. Since we no longer ship printed books, and I doubt most
> customers print our pdfs, people are mostly seeing them on line and are
> probably wondering why those pages are blank.
> Has anyone taken the plunge?
> --Nancy
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