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From: "David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
Cc: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Allocated chapter numbers for specific chapter content
>Unless I am misunderstanding your meaning, I would remind you of the
>original needs that led to the development of SGML in the first place.
>A modern aircraft of the time often involved four to six *hundred*
>feet of shelfspace for all its repair manuals from hundreds of
Yes, I believe the problem I described, concerning as few as two manuals of
different designs, would be present if I had 600 (!) feet of manuals etc.
Please don't assume that I am stodgy and prefer sameness to variety, when I
say "Bless the people willing to aim for the fewest designs possible in
that much documentation."
I think that the real driver behind the push for Standards like SGML lies
upstream of the presentation--it is the implicit requirement for information
analysis. Anyway, that's what I admire most about SGML. It is the one
thing I find missing to a troubling degree in technical writing
methodologies.
Ned Bedinger
Ed Wordsmith Technical Communications
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