Re: TW and grad school -Reply

Subject: Re: TW and grad school -Reply
From: Karen Kay <karen -at- WORDWRITE -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:46:44 -0800

Barb Philbrick said:
> It's not just formatting. It's also organization.

> Online help is excellent for brief procedures for software. It's
> horrible for conceptual or theoretical information and for hardware
> procedures.

But the paragraph you quoted below is about online doc, not online
help: two different animals.

> >The real problem as I see it--and maybe this is what people were trying
> >to say--is formatting. The problem is not fundamentally content,
> >audience, or anything else. Formatting that looks good in a book is
> >rarely best for online viewing, searching, etc.--or vice versa. Since
> >the vast majority of word processors, desktop publishing programs, and
> >markup languages embed formatting information in the text itself, rather
> >than embedding references to the text within the formatting information
> >(which would allow you to modify one copy of the text while maintaining
> >two different sets of formatting information), this is a problem for
> >which I see no short-term resolution.
> >
> >L.
>
> Barbara Philbrick, Caslon Services Inc.
> Technical Writing. caslonsvcs -at- ibm -dot- net
> Cleveland, OH
>
>
>
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Karen
karen -at- wordwrite -dot- com




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