DTP: Numbering Pages, Part 15
Those headers and footers are especially important if we want to add the title of the chapter, the name of the entire book, or other consistent and repeating information on the same line as the page number. They will also make it possible to create one header or footer for the first page of a chapter or section, and other, different header or footer for subsequent pages.
Those chapters should also be the guideline for the length of a document. Ignore the fact that many word processors allow an unlimited length to the document. Keep those documents brief - and certainly no longer than one chapter on a word processor, or a single newsletter with a desktop publishing program. Yes, that does imply that each chapter or other small unit in a word processing program should be created in its own separate document, and that the start of its numbering sequence is stipulated and initiated manually.
Desktop publishing and word processing programs each have specific advantages when preparing large documents. Some of the more advanced word processing programs print out a series of sections in consecutive order. They assign the correct page number for the continuation section, and then start to print one section when the previous one is completed. Desktop publishing programs now add this feature as well.
Do not overdo the available features in the headers or the footers. If you use too many graphic elements, then you add the page number, its header or footer, and then the surrounding graphic elements, then you will draw unnecessary attention to the graphics in the header rather than to the message in the text.
The next installment in this series will deal with an automated table of contents.
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