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Re: Engineering Textbook: Word MasterDocs vs FrameMaker vs ... ???

Subject: Re: Engineering Textbook: Word MasterDocs vs FrameMaker vs ... ???
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: Nina Rogers <janina -dot- rogers -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:29:54 -0700

If "textbook" means that the finished product is intended for educational use, I would really try to avoid the use of multi-level subheadings. Some of the engineering textbooks from my college days were loaded with useful data but were otherwise unreadable.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 10/20/2021 11:26 AM, Nina Rogers wrote:

The book will be between 400-500 pages with 16 chapters, each of which currently has between five and ten level-2 subheadings. (As I read through it, I'm seeing a need for L3 and even L4 subheadings.) There are scores of figures, tables, and mathematical equations throughout, all of which are labeled and cross-referenced at least once (and often multiple times) in the book. There is also a lengthy appendix (case studies, included in the page count I gave earlier) and, of course, a TOC and an index. The current version has no table of tables or table of figures, but we may add that because there are so many. If we add more heading levels, we may also have a single-level TOC followed by a more detailed, multi-level TOC. That may not happen, but it's a possibility. So, lots of cross-referencing, math equation text (I see that FrameMaker has a "MathML Equation" feature, which is new to me but looks like what I would use for the equations.

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