Re: What goes in which kind of document?

[Bonnie Granat <bgranat -at- att -dot- net>]

Becca Price wrote:
> I'm reorganizing our Administrator's Guide along strict
> task-oriented lines: what does the Admin want to do, and how do
> you do it with our software.  I'm putting all the interface
> information (field definitions, how to use specific screens,
> etc) in the help file.
> 
> I know that single-sourcing is the Holy Grail of techwriting (I
> read so on this list, after all, so it must be true!) but my
> proposed content division is designed to cut down redundancy
> between documents.
> 
> Does my proposal make sense?
> 

That's exactly what we do, Becca, and we
have links to online books (PDF and
HTML) where appropriate. 
-- 
Bonnie Granat 
http://home.att.net/~bgranat
Technical Writer and Editor    
http://www.artisoft.com

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