RE: Display, Displays, or Appears?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: Display, Displays, or Appears?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> > If the
> > software fails to behave properly, describing what they should be 
> > seeing -- but are not seeing -- is frustrating at best, and 
> > intimidating or infuriating at worst.
> 
> So...
> 
> 1. Click A.
> 2. Select C.
> 
> If C is unavailable to be selected, then the reader knows 
> something is wrong; we don't need to say "The B dialog box 
> appears" in Step 1.
> Correct?
> 

You mean technical writers never make mistakes and no software is ever
changed after the documentation has left the building?


Bonnie Granat
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