badtableofcontents
Originally uploaded by rob helpychalk.
Why why why?
You never see this in real books, but it comes up all the time in rulebooks and software documentation.
The table of contents, rather than giving you page numbers, gives you section numbers. In this case what you get are a secondary set of section numbers. So the table of contents tells you that Section IV.A.5 can be found in section IV.5. What fucking good is that?
Page numbers appear on every page in the same place. You don't have to keep flipping forward to find the next one in the sequence. They are a lovely established convention for finding your way around a text.
The death of decent forms of communication will be the downfall of society.
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