Makes sense. Thanks for the quick reply.
Lou
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Lou Iorio wrote:
I am reviewing Formatting Pages (very well written, by the way), and
have
come across references like this:
Some other uses are discussed in the chapter titled “Introduction to
Styles”.
My inclination is to change this to:
Some other uses are discussed in /Introduction to Styles/.
Ideally, /Introduction to Styles/ would be a hyper link.
I could not find this issue in the style guide or the writer guide.
These chapters are published standalone as well as part of a full
book, so we needed to choose a style that fit both situations. I am a
bit surprised that it isn't covered in either the style guide or
writer guide, but lots of things got overlooked there. I must fix that!
When a chapter is read standalone, the style you suggest would not
make it clear that it's referring to another chapter, and the
hyperlink would not lead anywhere useful.
Normally I would include the chapter number, but those were changing
during development of the book and writing of the individual chapter,
and so we did not include.
But even without that consideration, at this point changing the style
to remove the phrase "in the chapter titled" (or the short form "in
the chapter" -- I'm happy to drop the word "titled") or add the
chapter number, would make it inconsistent with the rest of the book.
When we revise the book in the new year, that would be a good time to
make changes like this. I have a long list of book and consistency
enhancements to be done at that time. I'll add this to that list. And
one of these days I'll compile and organise the list and post it on
the website. BTW, the revisions may be major -- we have ideas on
reorganising the sequence of chapters, for example.
But I don't want to tackle any of that until we get a first edition of
the other books done.
Regards, Jean
