>No, no, a thousand times NO! > >A proper printed manual is designed a printed final product from >the ground up, and it has a proper index created FOR that printed, >bound document. Without the index the usefullness of the manual >is very greatly reduced. > >Douglas For my style, I actually find that referencing a section number is by far superior to referencing a page number. After all, pages can change from version to version of the software, but sections usually have very little modification neccessary. I'm sure that this makes upkeep of the manual significantly easier as well from L-Soft's perspective. This may surprise you, but after I had printed out the entire manual when I was just getting started with list ownership, all 200 some odd pages of it, I found it so easy to find exactly what I was looking for because their were SECTIONS to look within, and finding sections is much easier than finding page numbers, particularly as printers will print different sized fonts and perhaps different fonts depending upon the printer capabilities. In fact, I've noticed many such reference materials I've bought which work under very similar ideas, particularly software manuals for sophisticated software products. They'll often say, for example, 0.1 Hardware requirements 0.2 Software purpose 1.0 An Introduction to software package X 1.1 Installation instructions 1.1.1 Easy install procedure 1.1.2 Custom install procedure 2.0 A quick start to software package X etc, etc, etc. Often, these sections will be seperated from each other by page breaks, something which is very difficult to do in the modern day of HTML and with the knowledge that people will be using different fonts and font sizes to view it which will inevitably never line up properly unless you pick just the right one, but the Lynx printout was very good for its purpose because it uses a standard size font and it automatically understands where to line things up properly. Again, just my preferences. YMMV, as they say. Glenn