Re: Change bars considered harmful (Was: Re: The worst doc problem ever?)

["Eric Dunn" <dunn -dot- eric -dot- l -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Change bars should be applied to new content and content that has changed
technically only.

It's quite simple really. Change bars mean one of two things,
For a reviewer: Only look at this.
For a user: Pay particular attention to this. Don't work from memory.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Caroline Tabach <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> However,  I have been in a situation where I was working on at least 7
> user
> guides that had to be approved for the release, some of which were over
> 200
> pages long, and I had only changed  a few sections in each user guide.
> The SME found in hard enough to review the books as it was, so I used the
> change bars to say, "this is all you have to look at". I know this is a
> compromise, as I would really like them to look at the complete book from
> time to time, but in this way, they at least looked at the material that
> was
> changed.
>
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