Re: Warm and Fuzzy Documentation

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Andrew Plato wrote:
 
> I think STC should start giving away Darwin-style awards for the most
> inane use of a tech writer's time. 

I thought STC members already spend their time giving each other awards?
;-)

Seriously, providing that the documents use styles consistently, this
requirement shouldn't take much time, and could make some difference.
And, even if it doesn't, file the request under "keeping the client
happy." 

It's not the strangest request I've heard from a client. That
distinction goes to the one who insisted that the manual be done in MS
Words, in separate text frames on landscape paper. Of course, text flow
was impossible, pagination a nightmare, and styles wouldn't work inside
the additional text frames, but, when persuasion failed and
opportunities for blackmail didn't materialize, I held my tongue (bit
right through it, actually) and did things the client's way.

-- 
Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

"And if I grow old someday I may rue
The loss of a dream soft and pretty
But they couldn't scare me with the fires of hell
And you can't scare me with pity."
-The Mollys, "Came for a Dance"

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