Re: State of the Technical Writing Field

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The great granddaddy of structured, modular documentation was (probably still 
is) DoD manuals.  There are probably other people here besides me who can 
remember receiving five pound update packages to massive ring-bindered tomes and 
spending many fun hours replacing dozens of single-sheet sections with catchy 
names like "31.567.1121B."  I remember our exceitement when the company I was 
working for at the time got one of the first Xerox DocuTech Production Publisher 
systems and salivating at the thought of being able to load all these subdocs 
into a data storage system (by scanning the camera-ready masters!!!) and then 
generate new and revised documents at will.  And at the time I wasn't even a 
technical writer yet; I was still an engineer.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>


I was thinking more along the lines of automated publishing, authoring
in a structured environment, using taxonomies to manage stored
information, yadda yadda yadda. 

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