"Stephen M" wrote in
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Yes, Shallow.

I would dispute this. I use a shallow cut for face jointing,
because it's hard to maintain a consistant speed & pressure with
the resistance of the whole width of the board. But for edge
jointing I'll start with a much more aggressive cut until the
edge is close to straight, because it makes it easier to control
the board and avoid tapering it if I make fewer passes.

Always crosscut to rough length before jointing.

Bad advice, or at least wasteful. You want enough length beyond
finished length to allow for planer snipe, which means wasting
8 or 10 inches on every piece (*). Where the stock allows, I try
to plan for more than one finished piece from a board, and I
joint and plane it before cutting to length (for significantly
non-flat boards I cut first, simply because for those you'd
end up jointing/planing too much of the board thickness away
if you didn't)

(* note that you can sometimes save a little stock if you can
plan your tenons to fall on the sniped end of a board)

John