RE: Current trends in Authoring Tools?

["Condo, Candis" <ccondo -at- c-cor -dot- com>]

Yup. I couldn't agree more. At HP back in the dark ages, I had a
photographer, a graphics illustrator, and a production person who laid
out the whole book.

Guess what I did: WROTE the material. Yes, indeed, imagine that. I owned
the whole process but I WROTE the material.

Sigh. Then came "desktop publishing" and my productivity has suffered
ever since.

Candis Condo

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AMEN!

On 2/8/07, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> As far as the product research and writing aspect of my work
> is concerned, I have NEVER been as productive with ANY
> authoring tool as I was during the days when I hand-wrote my
> document manuscripts with a #2 pencil and then sent the sheets
> over to a team of production specialists.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Amery" <kevindamery -at- gmail -dot- com>
>
> > The tools don't make you a writer, or a better writer--but they do
let
> > you spend more time on things like structure, logic flow, and
> > expression and less time on raw data entry. Yes, we could do our
jobs
> > with a pen if necessary, but we wouldn't be nearly as productive.
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