Re: OT: TFM *g* (was: Creating Intradocument Links in Adobe Acrob at)

Subject: Re: OT: TFM *g* (was: Creating Intradocument Links in Adobe Acrob at)
From: "K. Joyce McDonald" <KJoyceMcDonald -at- satx -dot- rr -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:26:41 -0500

And If I was piloting a helicopter, got lost in a fog and asked you where I
was, would you give me the technical definition of helicopter?

K. Joyce McDonald

Bill Swallow Wrote:


> Hoo Hoo! This is getting good!
>
> BUT...
>
> How do users look up what they need to know if they don't know what it is?
> We saw this problem clear as day with "hyperlink". Someone needed to know
> how to create a hyperlink (given their definition of hyperlink was
different
> than the product's). Now, someone else's definition of "hyperlink" may
still
> be different. Who's right?
>
> In this case, I argue that the product is right. Why? Convention. We
define
> and use convention every day. Some of us "press" OK, some of us "Click"
OK,
> some of us "hit" OK... Kind of a bad example, but ideally we define these
> conventions. I think in the "hyperlink" example, a glossary definition of
> "hyperlink" would have been nice, this way the reader looks up "hyperlink"
> in the index, or maybe directly in the glossary, and then understands what
> "hyperlink" means to this application, and *then* how to create them.
>
> :)
>
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