Re: Q: When do "editors" get credit?

["Comstock-Fisher, Julie" <jmfisher -at- BUTLERMFG -dot- ORG>]

I sign my help files with Easter Eggs. There's a particularly good one
in two help files I wrote at my last contract job. I had several screen
captures illustrating some basic concepts about the main program window
(for novice users) and there's an extra hotspot on the graphic in a spot
where few people would be likely to click. It's an invisible hotspot, so
the odds against anyone finding it are pretty high.

Most places where I've written paper documentation, I didn't want my
name on the book. It wasn't a quality issue, but a dislike of phone
calls. :-) If I wanted my name in the credits, I'd just add a line for
"editor" or "co-author." I think  that if you think you deserve credit,
you do.

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people
just stare at you blankly and say  "Hey, I got those with the
system, for free."                           --Linus Torvalds
.............................................................
........................................Julie Comstock-Fisher
................................Technical Writer (Consultant)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lettvin [SMTP:dlettvin -at- YAHOO -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:56 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Q: When do "editors" get credit?
>
> I'm surprised ANYONE gets their name on the book. Most companies I've
> been with have been paranoid about having names of personnel in the
> manuals. Being proud of my work I had to figure out an undetectable
> way to sign it. My books contained some very strange user names
> (anagrams) and lists (acrostics).
>


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