Opinions cary. . In my view. never more than once a section, and then only if they are long sections, or the section about that particular thing. Once per normal screen (40 lines or so) is wildly excessive. Assuming people get beyond the first screen, they know how to scroll.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/10/28 DESLIPPE, MICHAEL CIV DCMA CIV DFAS MICHAEL.DESLIPPE@dfas.mil:
Thanks, that was what I needed. My concern was that on some lengthy pages, someone may jump to a section of the page not containing the reference and miss the fact that one exists, but I guess everything has a tradeoff.
If they're in close proximity, it's pretty easy - only link one. As you say, though, this becomes a bit trickier for several instances.
The first time in each new section is often a good rule, or the first time in a "screen" of text - a very hard to define way, but generally a useful one! Certainly don't feel required to only do once per page if this seems clumsy or unhelpful.
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