Re: inline links (Re: Online help access question)
That's the world I work in. I haven't seen or talked with anyone about
a doc of any size that wasn't single-sourced, topic-based, and
task-oriented in over ten years. Hardly anyone sits down to read a
user guide. They start using the program and check the help when they
get stuck.
As a software user, I got used to nonlinear, searchable docs over 25
years ago. I think WordPerfect 4.2 for DOS was the first one I used
extensively.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Janoff, Steven
<Steven -dot- Janoff -at- hologic -dot- com> wrote:
... any given user might navigate/use 1 percent of the information set, but the collective of users would justify providing 100 percent.
Well, good luck. Aside from the fact that this would seem to be a massive burden of time and money for companies large and small, you have the problem you identify of document-centric thinking. You're going against 500 years of the Gutenberg age; it's going to take several generations, at least, to purge that habit. Most of the people alive today were born and raised on the document tradition. Millennials can deal with it but millennials I've worked with and known have often wanted PDFs.
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