Re: Is Word Formatting in End-User docs important? [was:Word Help (pr oblem solved)]
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.
But Shaeffer's comment was about tools, not function. Of course,
the function (the need for formatting) still exists, and in fact grows
more sophisticated, which is precisely what happened when
electronic calculators replaced the slide rule. In the future, a
writer might describe how (s)he participated in the development
of format rules in an EDD, or in the development of XSL middleware
that structures and formats information according to the end-user's
specifications.
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