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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:59 PM
> To: Bill Swallow
> Cc: Dan Goldstein; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Request of Advice
>
> Correct...do you think knowing the impact of topic length and
> that the correct way to handle the long topic with no heading
> is to place MORE is something that you want software to know
> because the writer doesn't?
Yes, that's an example of something that I wouldn't expect the HAL 9000
HATT App to know. The TW has to decide that one.
> Are you sure that the best way isn't to place a sub-heading
> first, so there are no exceptions?
That's also a perfectly good solution. Either way, it's the TW's
decision and not HAL's. I chose the other solution just to show an
example of the HCI; if I compose the sub-headings myself, it won't
require as much interchange with HAL.
> BTW...what's a 1280 by 1024 display?
My current screen resolution is 1280 by 1024 pixels. HAL doesn't know
what I mean by "scrolling down once," so he asks -- but his default is
my current display.
> ...
>
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