I had noticed this also, trying to follow the gearcutting article. I have not found this to be the easiest article to follow with the illustrations numbered – without numbering I gave up trying last night.

Proof reading oversight perhaps ?

Nigel B

Every picture should have not just a number, but a caption beneath it explaining what it is, otherwise readers are bound to get confused.

And every forum posting should have a number too.

Regards Ian.

No, I just found the numbers here in an envelope

Sorry for the mistake – we have had a few errors over the last few issues as I get used to a different workflow with a new designer.

The gearcutter pictures are 27, 28 and 29 if anyone wants to write them in; not sure it was that hard to figure out which is which without the numbers.

Arduino starts with photo 9 and they follow in sequence.

In general terms, I try to number all photos and caption them where it makes sense to, but if an article is illustrated by several angles of the same item I won't put captions like 'yet another picture of it but from the left hand side this time'.

Many authors don't include captions, and if possible I get back to them and ask for a list, but if I don't get this in time I may have to make them up myself. Naturally author's own captions are better as they can highlight key points.

Sometimes I get articles without photo references; it can be a struggle to ensure they go in the right places.

Sometimes I get captions and references but the numbers don't match the photos – this is a bit like solving a jigsaw…

A few authors don't supply either captions or photo references – at this point I start losing hair…

Sometimes I get a very large number of photos without captions or references and a note 'I've sent you plenty of photos so you can choose the best ones to illustrate the article' – at this point I lose the will to live

Neil

I'd sure like to see the post number right up there in the green stripe, plain and obvious!!

Pete

Having a number does make it easy if you want to refer someone back to a comment you made earlier in a thread or when linking to another thread you can link directly to a specific post. This is avalable on a lot of forums.

Having a number does make it easy if you want to refer someone back to a comment you made earlier in a thread or when linking to another thread you can link directly to a specific post. This is avalable on a lot of forums.

Fair point Jason and point taken but as it will probably help only a minority of users on this site can it be kept discrete? I suppose hiding it is as it is now is discrete!

I searched on "Post Number" and it told me there were no exact matches.

Satchll

Oh dear, and I thought the deadly underlap had been solved. Just shows how a better class of idiot can screw the system.

Regards Ian.

Circlip (who wrote that line) is making the very valid pont that on this site the numbering system is not really much use to anyone and very difficult to use if you wanted too.

Other sites have a # 1, #2, #3, etc somewhere along the top which would put it in our green header and it is easy to refer to or link to a particular post number.

As has been said previously it is unlikely to change any time soon.

J

Nerd Alert!

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Once a post number (emboldened above) is identified you can link to it. But not it seems from the same thread! Not much use I think.

Dave

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