RE: Planning modular help for software packages

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

My approach would be:

Abstract out of the existing product the essential
end-user goals accomplished .  Decompose the goals
into tasks.  Maybe sub-tasks also.  Presto - modular
help organization.

Tony Markos

--- mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com wrote:

I don't quite get how one can make a usefully modular
help system when the product it documents is not
usefully modular.
>

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