RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

Subject: RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting
From: "Mary T. Shaw" <smartblonde57 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:46:15 -0700 (PDT)



--- Phil Levy <phillevy -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Actually, don't you think that XML will soon make it
> easy for engineers to just fill in the blanks, thus
> eliminating the need for most tech writers?

IMX, the issue here would be the words, etc., that the
engineers would use to fill in those blanks.

There are some engineers out there who are very good
technical communicators. IMX, however, most require
some translation, elaboration, and general cleanup.

Mary (who now has enough time to come out of
lurkerdom for a while)


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RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting: From: Phil Levy

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