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Subject:RE: Documentation estimates From:coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:55:55 -0500
Quoth Richard Lewis:
>Are we commercial typists?
That's not what the job description says, though sometimes it feels that
way...
However, when I'm not wearing my tech writer hat, I can sometimes be found
doing freelance writing in a fairly small corner of the fiction industry.
I've never been asked to write to a page count in the decade I've been
doing that. My contracts and time-to-completion estimates have always
been measured by word count. There's a rough equivalency to page count
there, but it varies from publisher to publisher and from product line to
product line based on the layout standards for font and illustrations, and
that work occurs four or five layers away from me. In my day jobs, I've
invariably produced work intended for electronic, rather than hardcopy,
publication, and the only size that's been a concern is file size. The
last time I was asked to write to a specific page count was when I was
still in college and writing term papers.
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