RE: canon camera user doc style

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

But the advanced manual is insufficient without a few pages of basic
information.  You still need to carry both manuals until you're familiar
with the camera, so why not put a summary of the basics in the advanced
manual?

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:20 AM
To: Jessica Weissman; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: canon camera user doc style

I'm fine with it. They give basic information in the basic manual and
advance information in the advanced manual.

It's not their fault that you thought you could skip the basic manual
and later found out you can't

> interesting to me is that the advanced manual is full 
> of details, but does not cover the basics of operation 
> in any way.  There's a list

Why should they...they have a specific manual for it.

> What's your opinion of this way of configuring the manuals?  I'm
...
> on the basics to the advanced manual?

Because that's not what it is


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