RE: The 'user' in User Manual

["Flood, Donna" <DFlood -at- eoriginal -dot- com>]

I use "login" as a noun, and "log in" as a verb.  
 
"Log in, and the system will display...."
 
OR
 
"The login and the system will display...."
 
 
 
Donna Flood
Technical Writer
eOriginal, Inc.

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To: 'Steve Read'
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Subject: RE: The 'user' in User Manual



If the sentence stands alone and the passage makes no reference to this
being directed to a new user setup, then there is ambiguity, but the
ambiguity is in the passage and not the sentence.  I haven't read the
passage that this sentence should support, but my guess is that it could
read as follows.

In an administration document:
"Setup the new user.  Have the new user login. The system displays the new
user welcome message at the first successful login."

In a user document:
"Login and the system will display the new user welcome message after the
first successful login."

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