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Subject:Re: Quote of the Day From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Jim Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:10:13 -0700
Just to show that this isn't anything unique to our
profession, an old joke I heard a long time ago:
A man goes to an an orthodontist, who quotes him a
price of $5000 to do some work on his teeth. He
says, "$5000 for some wires and metal bands?"
The orthodontist excuses himself for a moment,
then returns with a shoebox full of wires and bands.
"I'm sorry," he says, "I didn't realize that you wanted
the do-it-yourself kit. We're running a special on
those this week, $59.95."
> That's one possibility. In my case the developers mistakenly believe that they would be able to produce required documentation
> from the JavaDoc tool. I don't mean that they think they can generate their comments, I mean they think they would be able to
> generate fully-formatted, ready-for-publication documents, replete with graphics, TOC, headers and footers.
Create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert to Help file formats or
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True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
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