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RE: On-Line Vs. Print, Single-Sourcing, and how to ignore the obv ious
Subject:RE: On-Line Vs. Print, Single-Sourcing, and how to ignore the obv ious From:Jason Willebeek-LeMair <jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:53:45 -0500
>From Jane:
Yeah. It's elementary. To get a good print manual, you have to sacrifice a
white goat, but for good online help, it's a black chicken. So
single-sourcing is impossible until science produces the required
chequerboard gicken. Or choat.
>From Jason:
Actually, I hear that there is a cloning company in Canada that is
aggressively working on this problem. They are funded by Adobe R&D, and the
results scheduled to be included in FrameMaker 7.5.6 which will ship with a
complimentary choat.
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