Rule number 1: Never work from scratch.
Find a manual online that looks good to you, and save the PDF as a Word
file. The headings in the Word file will be the same size as in the PDF.
You could use this as a starting point. This is the best way to get over
the writers' block of working from scratch.
Once when I was writing a manual for a new product, I asked the client
for a similar manual to use as a basis. He told me this is totally new
product. I asked him for something even remotely similar. He gave me the
Word files of another manual and it was much easier than working from
scratch.
--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
058-763-7133
On 23-Jan-17 11:10 PM, Tammy Van Boening wrote:
Hi All,
Working on a new template for a new client and my head is spinning. It's
been sooooooo long since I have designed anything w/ all these required
bells and whistles. (I am more of plain Jane template kinda' gal, and want
to focus more on the technical content of big honking manual, but that's a
whole 'nuther story.)
That said, I have the following paragraph tags:
Chapter Title and Appendix Title, both 28 pt and the tags have a Reference
Graphic called TitleLine underneath them that is a single line done in a
corporate color and font for my client and of a preferred width. These tags
are used only on the first page of a chapter or appendix.
HeadLev1, which is used at the Top of the Page. It is 24 pt. and in the same
corporate font in Regular weight and in good old black w/out any other
adornments and is In Column.
HeadLev2, which can start anywhere, is obviously used after a HeadingLev1,
is 16 pt and the same corporate font Regular weight in good old black w/out
any other adornments and is In Column.
I will need at times to have a HeadLev3. . . not frequent, but needed. It
needs to be delineated somehow from HeadLev2. I am not really crazy about
going down a font size, unless maybe making it bold instead? Or do I keep
it the same font size as HeadLevel 2 and maybe put like a thin double-line
underneath it?
I am just curious how y'all have made a distinct difference between
Heading2s and Heading3s w/out overdoing a Heading3.
Because I cannot have any sideheads in this template (a single text frame),
everything is In Column, so I can't make everything other than a Heading3 go
across columns/sideheads and keep the Heading3s just like Heading2s but make
them In Column instead (which is my usual approach).
Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
TammyVB *AT* spectrumwritingllc *DOT* com
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