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From: steve@ivucsb.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Inside Mac
Message-ID: <360@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 19:42:46 GMT
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Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <1027@houxs.UUCP> daw@houxs.UUCP (David Wolverton) writes:
}
}If you go the loose-leaf route, please be sure to have a numbering scheme
}set up right from the start, so that at any point in time it will be
}possible to publish an unambiguous list of the "correct" pages for a
}complete IM.  EVERY PAGE should have a unique, unambiguous "serial" number
}printed on it.
}
Do they really need some "serial" number?  I agree that a page numbering
scheme needs to be thought out, but that could just be something like
"section.sub-section.page.addon" where "section" is perhaps the toolbox
manager section number, the "sub-section" might be a certain command
procedure, the "page" number would be the original page number, and the
"addon" would be for future additions between pages (where the actual
pages involved didn't need to be reprinted, although if it became necessary
for "addon.addon" (etc.) then the sub-section might better be reprinted (and
renumbered as well) and distributed.

}[As background, I occasionally get update pages for a loose-leaf reference
}book at home.  It is often difficult to distinguish the "new" from the "old"
}page, especially if I didn't get around to installing the last set of pages,
}because there is no indication on the pages themselves of any sort of version
}number, date, etc.
}
It seems to me that if the date is printed on each page, then it shouldn't
be any big deal to determine which page is "new" and which page is "old".
Also, a list could be distributed of pages and the corresponding "dates" of
their last revision.  Then you would know which of your pages are out of
date, so to speak.  In fact, the table of contents could have the latest
dates of each section and sub-section.

}Dave Wolverton
 
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