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Re: Names for paragraph tags

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From: Thomas Michanek
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:09
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I think you need to elaborate a bit on what you are looking for.
Are you having problems today with your tag names?
Will the tag names be used by someone who doesn't understand your
documents or the vocabulary used in them? Perhaps you're describing
Blahongas, and the user doesn't know what a Blahonga is, so a tag
name "Blahonga" would create confusion?

A general advice is that tags should be named according to their
intended usage, and not their appearance. This is a common "mistake"
in naming character tags; for instance, you should use "Emphasis" or
"Concept" or "Link" instead of "Bolded" or "Italic" or "BlueUnderline".
For paragraph tags, you would use names like "ChapterTitle" instead of
"BigHeadingOnTheFirstPage" :-) (sorry, couldn't come up with a good example).

Another advice is to name tags so that related tags appear together in
the catalog, e.g. "Step" and "StepFirst" instead of "Step" and "FirstStep".
The user would then see all the possible tags used for Step paragraphs
at once.

If you want to heavily rely on the keyboatd shortcut F9 to apply tags,
you may want to give each tag a short prefix, such as "s Step", 
"s1 StepFirst", "h1 Heading1", "h2 Heading2".
(This makes sense if you know how to use F9.)

If you have special "internal" or uncommon tags that shouldn't be used,
you should create a special one-character prefix for them, for instance
"_Blahonga" or "zBlahonga" to have them appear either first or last in
the catalog.


-- 
/Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/
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