RE: Benchmarking technical documentation: typos, grammar, content?

["David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com>]

Geoff Hart wrote:
> C'mon, people, let's get realistic here. Typos happen,
> particularly when the
> developers come by and ask for 200 words to be changed 5 minutes
> before you
> burn the CD to send to the printer. Who has time for a spell check under
> those circumstances?

And this is one instance where MS Word (or WordPerfect, for that matter),
for all its evils when it comes to long documents, comes in handy.

While it's not perfect, e.g. it won't catch technical errors such as
mistyped numbers, I still really appreciate the spell check feature that
underlines problem words on the fly. I imagine that some tech writers might
get snooty about this sort of feature, but I think it's a useful tool that
I'd love to see available in higher-end documentation tools.

Hmmmm, I wonder if Ventura has that option?

David Berg


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