RE: What good is it if you can't find it?

Subject: RE: What good is it if you can't find it?
From: KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:32:07 -0500




> -----Original Message-----
> .From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:43 PM


> > .As with life in general, the all-or-nothing stances on both
> sides of
> > the content/design war are wrong.

> I'm just wondering: Has anybody argued on the list that
> design is more
> important than content (or that is all-important) for technical
> documentation? Or is this just a position that some proponents of the
> "content is everything" side have invented to have a better target?
>
> Just asking because I cannot remember anybody arguing in this way for
> the pro-design position - but that may be my memory.

Haven't you heard? The strawman argument is a perfectly
valid debating tactic . . . . . . until somebody calls
you on it.

Somebody had to do it. Congratulations on volunteering. :-)
Your cheque is in the mail.
Void where prohibited.
Prohibited where void.



/kevin


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