Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?

["Raj Machhan" <raj -dot- machhan -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yeah Ned. Point taken.

On 10/15/07, Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Raj Machhan wrote:
> > Agreed. The technical document has to be correct in all aspects. But
> isn't
> > it understood? Can this ever be a debatable point? Wasn't this the first
> > thing that is told to each and every writer.
>
> No, the usual first (and last, and in between) thing is always stylistic.
>
> If one needs to talk about being
> > correct in a forum like ours, I guess we are undermining the
> intellectual
> > ability of the members.
>
> Honestly, I'd have to say it depends. In some cases, I'm sure it is
> taken for granted and that's why we don't discuss it.
>
> Unfortunately, the worst tech writing problems I've ever seen are the
> ones that come from technical writers who are not able to get projects
> right. Sometimes it is due to schedules, sometimes due to bad matches
> between project and writer, and SOMETIMES it is due to tech writers who
> put form over function, skipping rightness in order to pursue
> refinements of grammar and punctuation, style guides, tools, and the
> making of pretty readable documents. I say that's all well and good for
> tech writing (we operate in a cloud of skills and expertise), but it is
> only half of the enchilda--we also need the rightness part.
>
> Debating the goodness of this problem is a fool's errand, but discussion
> of it isn't so bad, is it?
>
> Ned Bedinger
> doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
>
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