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Subject:Re: How Would You From:Risa Nesselroth <risa -dot- nesselroth -at- AKS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:54:04 +0200
Better yet is a company-wide tracking system that numbers all bugs: each
bug is identified as #666 or whatever, so everyone knows which bug is being
discussed, and you get out of having to number paragraphs that don't want
to be numbered.
On 28-08-97 18:41:14 Robert Plamondon wrote:
>Bugs, bug fixes, and the like need to be identified individually
>so people can talk about them. Bugs and bug fixes are a constant
>source of telephone and e-mail conversation, and if you don't
>number them, it's very difficult to discuss them at all.
>
>Sure, you could use bullets or a sweeping, uninterrupted narrative,
>but this forces people to refer to "the second paragraph on page
>12." Even this doesn't work for HTML, which is unpaginated.
>
>Section numbers and numbered paragraphs make it a lot easier for
>people to discuss the material in a technical manual. Only if
>the reader is truly expected to deal with the information in
>isolation (as in very simple tutorials) should the signposts be
>knocked down.
>
> -- Robert
>
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