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Subject:Re: how do you.... From:Jim Grey <jwg -at- ACD4 -dot- ACD -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 May 1994 09:02:51 -0500
Karla McMaster sez:
>What may be most frustrating about creeping features, though, is that they
>make the product look cobbled together. This is always obvious in the
>documentation, perhaps more so than in the product itself.
On the other hand, I take it as a challenge to make an obviously tacked-on
feature read seamlessly in the manual.
Admittedly, though, I have written any number of 500-page manuals with
five 70-page (avg.) sections, a 30-page glossary, a big index... and that
cotton-pickin' one-page Section Six that covers that gol-darned tacked-on
feature.
jim grey
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