Efficient Document Design

<p>After working on several projects for a while now, I've discovered several things that helps lubricate the project and improve presentation.</p><p>1) Creating the primary sections before doing anything on the project. This gives a place to parse information. You'll always know where to put something, because the section already exists.</p><p>2) Using all caps for primary sections helps distinguish the sections from their subsections in the printable version. </p><p>3) In rule books and campain books, I use some variation of the following section headings that works well (put them in any order you like):</p><p>INTRODUCTION<br />CHARACTER AND/OR SKILLS<br />NEW MECHANICS (Optional)<br />MOVEMENT<br />COMBAT<br />EQUIPMENT<br />SETTING and/or BACKGROUND<br />CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT or REFEREE SECTION<br />GLOSSARY<br />BIBLIOGRAPHY</p><p>4) For modules, though later Star Frontiers modules dumped it, early
Star Frontiers modules utilized the greek alphabet in identifying their
sections. Following is a complete list of the greek alphabet, if you
would like to use them. </p><p>ALPHA<br />
BETA<br />
GAMMA<br />
DELTA<br />
EPSILON<br />
ZETA<br />
ETA<br />
THETA<br />
IOTA<br />
KAPPA<br />
LAMBDA<br />
MU<br />
NU<br />
XI<br />
OMIKRON<br />
PI<br />
RHO<br />
SIGMA<br />
TAU<br />
UPSILON<br />
PHI<br />
CHI<br />
PSI<br />
OMEGA</p><p>5) The first section of a module is for preparative information. The last section of a module is often given for campaign ideas. Each one inbetween is for a different scenario contributing to the story. </p><p>6) Glossaries are good for keeping track of new terms</p><p>7) No matter what the project, a Bibliography is appropriate for keeping track of your sources and properly crediting those sources, whether you quote them directly, or use rewritten information gleened from those sources.</p><p>8) Plagiarism is a crime, so it is important that you clearly identify the source of all quotes or fully rewrite statements in your own words. There is plenty of information about plagiarism on the internet. Get familiar with that information if you would like to avoid any unpleasantness from someone discovering their material or their company's material in your document.</p><p>9) Put subsections in their own pages subordinate to the primary section.</p><p>10) Put departmentalized information, such as skill or race descriptions in their own pages subordinate to the subsection. (Note: Simple glossary definitions and subdivisions do not need to be given their own pages.)</p><p>That concludes these tips. Maybe they'll help you in your projects. </p>