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From: julian.rickards
Date: Jan 29, 2004 1:07PM

Regarding the HTML version, I think the information lends itself to tables
quite fine with some minor modifications. The group title, such as
"Associate and Assistant Deans" could be structured as a caption (which then
may be styled as you have it now) and then put "Name", "Title" and "Email
Address" within <th>s at the top of each column and you should be fine.

The problem with your "graphical" PDF is that the relationships are
difficult to interpret if you you just read the text alone.

...and yes, the two documents don't match each other. I think you may have
to restructure the org chart so that using text, the groupings are clear -
perhaps nested lists? Nested lists would be valid (in an HTML sense) but I
am not clear that they would be understood properly when the nesting is
deep.

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Julian Rickards
Digital Publications Distribution Coordinator
Publications Services Section
Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
Phone: (705) 670-5608
Fax: (705) 670-5690


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