Re: Various draft problems

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 16:52:33 CDT


Erland Sommarskog said:
>> The problem with having a list is that the lists get out of step with the
>> section describing the headers as we edit the document.
>
> But we know quite well which headers we have, so we could include
> the definitive lists in the text?

Yes. But, from experience, I can tell you that having two normative
sections of text saying the same thing is very dangerous. Because if they
disagree, you're in real trouble.

At the end of the day, it's the Editor's call.

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