RE: Help without manuals

["Metzger, Lucinda" <cmetzger -at- dukane -dot- com>]

DB wrote:

"The approach--the one you mention about going from help to PDF--that my
team took is described in an article at
http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/writingsamples/SingleSourcing.pdf. This
approach was pretty onerous. We undertook this route because we had
abandoned updating our Frame files months earlier, so our help system was
our most up-to-date source. We then had a requirement for a PDF version, so
we had no choice but to go help-to-PDF."



Thanks for passing the URL for your article along -- this is timely, since I
am wrestling with some of the same issues for a current project.

In the article, you state that you have "subsequently employed smoother,
less complicated processes." Pray tell, have you written anything on those
processes?

Cindy
cmetzger -at- dukane -dot- com

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