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| We have a style guide and a template. Our manager, who is the manager
of
| Customer Service and Support, becomes unhappy when we depart from the
| template. I created the template. It is mostly for end user
documentation,
| and I always envisioned it as the "core" from which individual
documents
| might vary to some degree, depending on the needs of the writer. With
some
| variation allowed, documents would still have the same "look and feel"
if
| the writer adhered to the fonts and so forth.
| Is it usual to consider a template the only way to create documents of
the
| same type, allowing the documentor no freedom depending on the
individual
| document?
This varies from shop to shop, so I can't say that it's "usual." But it
is certainly the best practice. Our writers are not allowed to create,
modify, or override styles defined in the templates we use.
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