Re: what I recently heard

Subject: Re: what I recently heard
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:40:39 -0500


>
> "Everyone knows that consistency is important. But at STC's
> 46th Annual Conference last May in Cincinnati, a speaker
> reportedly proclaimed, 'It is better to be consistently
> wrong than to not be consistent.'
>

They're talking about using an unorthodox convention (such as a punctuation
convention) and using it *throughout* the documentation set. They are NOT
talking about technical facts.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.editors-writers.info
617-354-7084






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References:
RE: what I recently heard: From: Jim Shaeffer

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