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Re: Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way
Subject:Re: Re: Single Spacing, Double Spacing, and Doing It Ones Own Way From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 May 2004 10:00:22 -0700
Quoting kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com:
> But in my experience, the target audience of most tech writers simply does
> not care about this stuff.
As I've said before, the audience shouldn't care about this stuff. It shouldn't
even notice it. But,then, the audience doesn't care if the program is written
in .NET or Java, either. That doesn't mean that the issue is unimportant.
For that matter, I never notice very many people objecting when someone is
agonizing over whether a word should have a hyphen or not.
Obviously, you can give such matters too much attention. But it doesn't hurt to
know your options.
>
> But if you're frantically cranking out online help or PDF manuals for
> software that is hastily developed and released according to strenous
> deadlines, while receiving paychecks from a company ever eager to find
> ways to cut costs, you've got bigger fish to fry. That's all I'm saying.
What if your company is concerned about how the manuals or help affect its
branding? Then it becomes another concern to juggle.
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