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Re: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly

Subject: Re: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:02:20 -0500

You're not talking about formatting (other than the
presence or absence of bullets). You're really talking
about writing style. Bad writing is bad writing, whether
it's done in a structured authoring environment or not.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ


From: Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Formatting Docs On-The-Fly
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:44:27 -0800 (PST)

Char:

If for example, the standard formatting calls for
right-size numbered steps (written in the active
voice), if I have "holes" in my understanding of the
subject matter, I can try and hide such by switching
to unnumbered (read: often non sequential), large
paragraphs written in puffed up, vague,
non-active-voice language.

Rationale: If they can't establish the flow of it
and/or get specific with it, then maybe they will not
be able t see the holes in it. Happened all the time
at the DOD agency which I contracted at. (Often times
such text was prefixed with a statement like "The
procedure to do X is simple.")

Tony Markos

--- Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:


> I figure I'm missing something, because I don't see
> how reformatting
> something will hide the holes in the content.
>
> Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~
> http://www.helpstuff.com

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