[Framers] Question about differentiating heading levels

[Shmuel Wolfson]

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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