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Online Documentation book recommendation (was RE: Designing Windo ws 95 Help Book)
Subject:Online Documentation book recommendation (was RE: Designing Windo ws 95 Help Book) From:Gerry Bourguignon <GBourgui -at- LAVASYS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:25:23 -0500
Allow me to rephrase this ...
If you were going to buy just one book on developing online documentation,
what would it be?
Thanks in advance.
--
Gerry Bourguignon
Lone Technical Writer
Open Text Corp, LAVA Div.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerry Bourguignon [SMTP:GBourgui -at- LAVASYS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 4:33 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Designing Windows 95 Help Book
>
> > Thanks all. I found and ordered the book I was looking for. There were
> a
> > couple of copies left at Knowwere if anyone is looking for one.
>
> Well, the other title that was recommended on this list recently,
> "Designing
> & Writing Online Documentation: Hypermedia for Self Supporting Products"
> by
> William K. Horton, appears to be available Somewhere, and that's at Indigo
> (here in Canada, anyway). However, it has a publication date of October
> 1994. Is this the most up-to-date version?
>