RE: The Burden of Screen Captures

["Mike Bradley" <mbradley -at- techpubs -dot- com>]

> In my experience, I'd say that the task-oriented principles 
> outlined by the MS style guide really did enter the 
> mainstream during the 1990s, and now most tech writers 
> practice them to some extent whether they are aware of them or not. 

Caution, stack about to blow ...

My first manual was for a custom time billing program in 1983 and it was
task-oriented, then I wrote the manual for a Wordstar clone and it was
task-oriented, then I wrote hardware docs for North Star computers and
their docs were task-oriented, then I wrote user manuals for
electron-beam lithography tools and those manuals were task-oriented,
then I ... 

All these were in Silicon Valley. Admittedly, that's in California, but
I doubt you can say the computer industry here isn't in the mainstream.
Don't tell me it took a decade for the rest of the country to catch on
to what we were doing.


= Mike Bradley
  Tech Pubs



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