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From: Iain Harrison
Date: Oct 19, 2004 10:30AM

Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 2:19:24 PM, julian.rickards wrote:

> I have always felt that documents must be structured like a tree with
> branches: if the trunk is h1, then the branches off the trunk are h2, etc.
> You cannot skip from the trunk to a distant branch (h5) without passing
> through h2, h3, and h4 branches. As Jukka wrote, if h4 is too large, use
> styles to resize it or de-emphasize it.

That makes no sense to me. Some large trunks of the trees in my
garden (photo on our web page) have tiny twigs growing out out them,
as well as smaller branches.

If you redefine H4 to be smaller on the page, where does that leave
a page with both H3 and H4 content? Either they'll be hard to
distinguish, or you'll have inconsistency between pages.

I skip style levels where necessary.


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Iain