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Subject:RE: Interviewing "under the hood"? From:"Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:12:28 -0400
> It would also be interesting to see a show of hands for
> everyone who's *never* used a manual formatting cheat
> because the draft had to go in *now* and the @#$%^ style
> wasn't producing the intended result.
Can't say never, but not in the last six years certainly, because all the
documentation I've created in that time has been written in SGML and
formatted automatically.
Which means I should be an excellent candidate for the job Dan is recruiting
for, since I could generate the HTML any way he wanted it.
Formatting is a job for machines, not human beings.
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