Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, or Appears)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I don't know if this is giving readers too much credit or
not enough, but I would think that telling someone to do
something in one dialog followed by an instruction to
do something in the next dialog would tell them that the
next dialog is what is supposed to come up, and that
anyone who doesn't realize there's been a application
failure when they follow instructions and the next dialog
doesn't come up isn't necessarily going to realize it
when the document says "the xxx dialog appears" and
it doesn't.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>

> It won't make sense if there was an error that prevents the dialog box 
> from
> appearing.  I like to account for possible errors in my documentation 
> in
> some way, whether those errors were caused by the user or the 
> application.

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