Re: Single-sourcing = myth? (v-LONG)

["Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

"Doc" <dlettvin -at- attbi -dot- com> wrote:

<snip>
> SHOW ME THE CONTENT!!
>
> I don't care if it's in Word, FrameMaker, or AmiPro. Even better, give
> me ASCII text files.
>
> Forget the damn format! I want to see the information. Forget the
> fonts, forget the headers and footers, all that can be fixed ...
> easily.
<snip>
> I am not saying that delivery systems don't matter. I am saying that a
> mediocre delivery system with good content is useful, but an excellent
> delivery system with faulty, incomplete, verbose, inconsistent content
> is not just useless, it can kill a product. I have seen it happen.

Andrew... is that you? Are you back? ;-)

Thanks for the great post. Now, back to work, you!

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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