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Subject:Re: Planning modular help for software packages From:"Katie Kearns" <katie -dot- kearns -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:04:44 -0800
On 3/1/06, Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Bill:
>
> What is the difference between modular orgainzation
> and user-friendly (i.e., user needed) documentation?
>
> Tony Markos
There's a whole lot more to user-friendliness then how it's organized?
Still, the original poster was asking about technical aspects of creating
modular help -- about conditional text tags, how to get "drop-in" help
modules, etc.. Not so much about task analysis and writing things as
modules.
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