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Re: Is Word Formatting in End-User docs important? [was:Word Help (pr oblem solved)]
Subject:Re: Is Word Formatting in End-User docs important? [was:Word Help (pr oblem solved)] From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:28:08 -0800
Dan Emory wrote:
>
> At 09:45 AM 11/29/00 -0500, Jim Shaeffer wrote:
>
> >So, one of these writers would, after a few years, have no experience with
> >tools such as word or other DTP packages. I wonder what their resumes will
> >look like?
> ===========================================
> The same as an engineer's resume which admits (s)he never
> learned how to use a slide rule.
> ====================
A clever comment, but you're conflating the function and the tools.
The need for design, of course, doesn't disappear with markup
languages: it simply shifts to style sheets.
It's true that many publications written using markup languages are
not aesthetic wonders. Neither O'Reilly books or Free Software
Foundation manuals are ever going to win design awards. However, if
markup languages continue to become more widely used, I suspect that
style sheets will develop, too. If that happens, people who know
their way around style sheets will be in as much demand as good
template designers are now. And, like template designers, the
writers of style sheets will benefit from a knowledge of typography.
They'll apply that knowledge in different ways, that's all.
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