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RE: Online help and the elimination of the printed doc
Subject:RE: Online help and the elimination of the printed doc From:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Daniel_Hall -at- trendmicro -dot- com, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:31:28 -0800 (PST)
> 1. Invest most of my time in the printed manual
> (general
> practice here), with help that's mostly just
> re-purposed
> manual content.
> 2. Invest most of my time in the help system
> (with all that
> detailed, control-level, stuff) and trim down
> the manual.
> 3. I could have both of about "average quality."
You sound like a marketing hook for single-sourcing.
;)
> There just isn't time for both, so I thought it
> might be worth
> investigating if there was anyone who'd done
> something
> similar... and received feedback, or had experience
> to share.
Nope. I do both in the timespan of creating one
deliverable.
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