Re: Subject: Re: New doc group: FrameMaker or Flare?

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

If the situation is likely to turn out to be one in which the developers are 
going to revise existing docs and possibly even create new ones with contract 
writers being brought in "as needed" (IOW, when the developers bollux up the 
drafts so badly that nobody in-house can fix them), then my advice would be to 
develop simple templates in the existing WP infrastructure, find one person in 
the company who is interested in learning how to tag styles and generate 
deliverable PDFs (perhaps an admin or doc control specialist with an interest), 
then encourage the developers to type their input into the WP or WordPad as 
unformatted text and pass it to that person for formatting and final production 
(and the company to give that person a raise to go with the added 
responsibility).  A single point operation in this area will help avoid a lot of 
chaos in the documentation.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
> I'd caught that after posting in this thread (one of the pitfalls of
> changing the subject line mid-stream on a listserv). And you're right,
> idiots are ingenious (see my hammer/screwdriver/wrench examples in my
> reply to the other thread). So part of the solution is to pick a
> self-contained tool to minimize effort in setting up an authoring
> environment. Another part is developing - and documenting - a solid
> yet minimalist template and style guide. The third is pre-exodus
> training. And the fourth is leaving your contact info behind for
> follow-up engagements.

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