Re: Generalized rant.

[Sharon Burton <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM>]

The search and replace would be the best if the writer had been consistent,
but bad writers rarely are... Some can be s/r, but much of it must be done
my hand. I am going to miss a lot and there it is. Now, a note to the BS guy
to find out why the decompiler is screwing up my decompiled help.

sharon

Sharon Burton-Hardin
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-----Original Message-----
From: John David Hickey <jdavid -at- FARABI -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 25 November, 1998 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: Generalized rant.


>Greetings!
>
>> The entire project is written
>> in future tense, there are wishes and desires throughout the project, we
>> have very complicated sentence structures that use really big words, and
>> many other problems I must fix. Comma faults and comma splices
everywhere.
>> May's all over. Terminates instead of breaks. Several As mentioned
>> earlier's. In a help file! Like the user read earlier! Like I could find
>> earlier!
>
>A massive Search/Replace does wonders for clearing out the crap. Even if I
>don't like the way a writer structure/worded a document that I now have to
>fix, I gotta tip my hat if the writer used the awful terminology
>consistently. It makes it so much easier to fix!
>
>> Just needed to rant to a few minutes. I have been fixing this 650+ topics
>> help for 3 days. Getting goofy, I guess.
>
>I hear ya sister! I generally make myself a big cup of tea, haul out my fav
>CD of the day, plug in and plug away. Right now, I've got to make sense of
>these horribly written/structured engineering documents. The engineers use
>Word like it's some kinda Electro-Underwood!
><search/replace><search/replace><search/replace><search/replace>
>
>Actually, I enjoy being the English Language/Desktop Layout Guru in the
>area. I AM DRUNK WITH POWER!
>
>Sip your tea and listen to your CD... You'll get through it!
>--
>Be seeing you,
>
>John David Hickey
>Lone Technical Writer
>--
>Farabi Technology Corporation
>Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>
>jdavid -at- farabi -dot- com
>514-332-3455
>
>This sentence contradicts itself: no, wait, actually it doesn't.
>--
>
>
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