atw: Re: FM6: Should we blank a left-hand trailing page?

Good point - and a lot of layout conventions are left over from the 
days when manuals were published loose-leaf in three-ring binders, and 
updates came with instructions on where to put the pages. I haven't 
written one of those for a few years.

JH


On 17 Mar 2005, at 10:40 PM, Steve Hudson wrote:

> As any old timer knows from experience, you have the title of the work 
> on
> each page so you can identify what volume that page belongs to if it 
> gets
> separated from the binding.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hunt
>
>
> ...
>
> I noticed that headers and footers became simpler over time, to the 
> extent
> that some books now have blank headers, and footers that contain only a
> centered page number. Seems reasonable: if you can't remember the name 
> of
> the book that you are reading, just look at the cover or the title 
> page.
>
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