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Re: STC Letter to the Editor

Subject: Re: STC Letter to the Editor
From: Matthew Donovan <mdonovan -at- stavanger -dot- oilfield -dot- slb -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:31:02 +0100



At 12:00 AM 11/5/2002 -0700, TECHWR-L digest wrote:

Subject: RE: STC Letter to the Editor
From: Shea Michael EXT <Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:34:31 +0100

Come on folks. I think we all agree that STC volunteers cannot ever judge the technical accuracy. Yes technical accuracy is important. It can be life-threateningly important when we are documenting, let's say medical equipment.

However, you can have a technically accurate book in which information:

<snip>
* is buried in minutia


Isn't worrying about whether Verdana 12 looks better than Arial 10 a bit of minutia ?

This STC thing sounds to me like a dog contest where we look at the ribbons, but don't care less if the dog can bark.
But maybe that's what the STC is all about.
I am so busy writing technical docs to satisfy my clients that I must be skipping the important things like para indents and 1.5 inch gutters.

My 2 Krone worth.

Matt.


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