Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 CA>> Which tells me that you are not printing pages either.

 RJT> Nope!  Though I've hit a few lately that I wouldn't mind 
 RJT> printing.  Mostly because there's text info that's referring to 
 RJT> diagrams in other parts of the page that aren't still visible.  
 RJT> A matter of arrangement,  and since I'm dealing with local 
 RJT> copies of the stuff I can probably fix that.

 MMC> There you've hit on one of my pet peeves with even printed manuals
 MMC> and books.  Why!!!!!!  

 MMC> They put the diagram or picture on "page 12", and all the text
 MMC> references to that picture begin on "page 22".  (Or vice-versa).

Yeah,  that irritates me,  too.  Particularly since there's no real reason
for them to do things that way...

 MMC> This past Spring, I had occasion to overhaul an outboard motor for
 MMC> a friend, and the 'referenced pictures' in the Service Manual were
 MMC> not even in the same chapter.  Never have I run across a more
 MMC> infuriating task.

While working on my truck I found it useful to occasionally photocopy pages
and use _them_ instead of the book.

 MMC> I finally took my own pictures of the engine and put them in the
 MMC> computer, then I could view the pictures in a logical sequence
 MMC> while reading the associated text from the manual of what to do
 MMC> with certain parts.



There are a lot of "publishers" out there (on the web and
otherwise) that don't have a clue,  yet.  Maybe they'll get one someday...

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