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Subject:Re: "Ability" or "allows" From:Doug Nickerson <doug_nickerson -at- ONSETCOMP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:03:53 -0400
Dear John,
When they brought in the real tech writer to help me out last April, she
preferred:
"Project X enables you to graph multiple plots in the same plot window."
I had written "allows you to" everywhere in a certain User's Guide.
To her ear, this bespoke a sort of permission--the software in its wisdom,
would
let you do it.
