RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

["Ronan DEPAGNE" <ronan -dot- depagne -at- atempo -dot- com>]

> Scott wrote on Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:51:53 -0500
>
> <snip>
> > About 15 to 20 years ago, format was separated from writing. It
> > wasn't very efficient.
>
> IMHO, it was - and is - still very efficient.
>
> Writing in a plain text editor means for me, to concentrate on the
> pure content. There is no disturbing formatting, hindering me from
> keeping my thoughts on the subject by occasionally clicking here and
> there ...
>
Not that I disagree with concentrating on pure content, but I find it
easier to organize my thougths when I use a tool which allows me to say,
during the writing: this is a heading and this not.

> In my experience, separating writing (the creation of content) and
> formatting (doing the style part)speeds up the complete process.
>
At a point, i had to use plain text and import, I found that I lost a
lot of time going through the whole text doing something i did not find
interesting: "this is heading 1, click here, this is heading 2, click
there;"

Well, every one his own.

> Just my 2 Euro Cents ...
Juste mes deux centimes d'euros ...

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