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

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

I can't recall seeing any, either. For all that we *talk* about variety
in technical writing, maybe no one wants to actually *pay* for it.

It's a straw man, beating a dead horse with a moot point.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 5:36 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein; TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, 
> or Appears)
> 
> If you mean documents with "variety" in their 
> descriptions, offhand I can't recall seeing any. If you 
> mean documents that give me the impressions you described, 
> I don't think they're online, but the printed manuals that 
> IBM provided for its OS/2 operating systems would be the 
> first ones that come to my mind.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Goldstein"
> > ... Actually, I've never had the pleasure of reading 
> > such a document. Can someone point me to an example 
> > online?
> 

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