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From: rmf1992@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Inside Mac
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Date: 6 Nov 88 00:49:00 GMT
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(.02 following)

	I would just like to suggest a comprimise between the loose-leaf format
and the perfect bound book.  Most of the responses have said that loose-leaf is
better, but ... diffucult to keep manual and index updated, losing and tearing
of pages, and needing larg binder(s).  Someone suggested a pamphlet type system
and this sounds excellent.  First of all these can be simply made strong enough
to not even need a binder and survive on their own, but obviously they could be
put into a binder if you want.  Since they will be somewhat bound you don't have
the same chance of losing a single page (but then again sometimes I can't find
my IM's).  And the problem with updating can be made very efficient by 
giving each chapter its own pamphlet or 3, and if the chapter has more than one
pamphlet then a cross between handwaving and a little foresight could
concentrate the material that is most likely to have updates in one of the 
pamphlets.  And of course a new index would be published with each set of 
updates.  Perhaps, this would become a regular notification channel being
published quartely or semi-anually, supplemented inbetween updates with tech-
notes.




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