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Subject:Re: This subject line intentionally left blank From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:51:16 MST
Robert Busch wrote--
That's an interesting solution -- on first consideration, I really
liked it. The biggest problem that I see is consistency: only chapters
that end on odd pages will have a NOTES page; the even-ending chapters
won't need it. I suppose you could add two notes pages in this case,
but that introduces a different inconsistency.
The real question, then, is whether readers would be thrown off more
(or even at all) by a blank page or by an inconsistent number of NOTES
pages. Hmmm . . . something to think about.
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Excellent thoughts, Robert! And now that you mention it, I've
not only seen that anomaly before, I've wondered about it just
as you said; as in "why don't I have a notes page here?" This
has been especially notable in seminar handouts.
I feel I'm flip-flopping here. First I liked the "NOTES"
concept, now I see holes in it. I'm so easily influenced...
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