TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
This week I've been working on a "pocket guide" version of a user manual,
which is in a 4.25 x 5.5 inch format intended to fit in a pocket. To make
these guides, I need to follow some elaborate maethods of printing in Word
(for example, four pages per sheet, in the sequence
12,1,10,3,2,11,4,9,8,5,6,7 for a 12-page version). Then the booklets need
to be built and stapled.
I've been calling them cootie catchers, and yesterday someone actually built
one for me. So I was showing it around, saying it was a new template for a
pocket guide.
"My-mother-told-me-to-release-this-order..."
Sure enough, there really is a cootie catcher template out there:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A new book on Single Sourcing has been released by William Andrew
Publishing: _Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation_
is now available at: http://www.williamandrew.com/titles/1491.html.
Order RoboHelp X3 today and receive a $100 mail in rebate and a FREE
WebHelp Merge Module for merging multiple Help systems on any desktop
or server. Order online today at http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l
---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as:
archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.
