Based on other past manuals, I might have expected the two-column text
format here as well, but the z/OS 2.1 migration manual I find at
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z3m100.pdf
does seem to have all text sections in single-column format. I
understand Marna's confusion.
The Table of Contents is indeed two columns, and probably every table in
the document is two or more columns; but there's not much use for even
formatting data into a table if you are going to limit all tables to one
dimension.
J. C. Ewing
On 08/09/2013 11:45 PM, Louis Losee wrote:
> Each page of the manual is formatted into two columns (like a newspaper.
> When you finish reading the first column (on the left half of the page) you
> then have to scroll up to see the start of the column of the right half of
> the page to continue reading.
>
> Most IBM manuals (with the notable exception of the Principles of Operation
> manual) are formatted such that the text runs from the left margin to the
> right margin allowing you to just scroll down to read it. When you get to
> the bottom of the page you just continue to scroll to the next page.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Lou
> On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Marna WALLE <mwa...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry...I am really dense. I'm not following what "dual columns" are.
>> Are you referring to the template table that is used after the Description,
>> and before the Steps to Take? Is it something else that just now appears
>> in the z/OS V2R1 Migration book, or has it been there all along?
>>
>> I wouldn't like to keep paging up and down online either, so I'd like to see
>> if there is something to be done about it.
>>
>> -Marna WALLE
>> z/OS System Installation
>>
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org
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