Re: text production process

Subject: Re: text production process
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:17:01 -0500



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Plato" <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Cc: <jqg -at- pc -dot- dk>
Sent: January 25, 2003 02:42 PM
Subject: Re: text production process


|
| "John Garside" wrote
| >
| > Our department has been discussing promulgating a
| > text production process for some months.
|
| Whoa, you sure you're ready for that? Do you have a font selection
methodology?
| A paper use procedure? A internationally recognized quality reporting and
| metrics analysis process? You can't just jump into a text production process
| without a process to select the process that will decide which process is
used
| in analyzing the processes that process which process is procedureally the
most
| methodical. Are you MAD!
|
| > The sticking point is that the commissioners of the
| > text -- typically other departments -- are treated
| > as 'customers' who, if not always right, do have the
| > last word.
|
| Eh, the customer is always right.
|
| > How do others reconcile the application of a
| > standard process with gorillas who want lipstick?
|
| When logic, reason, and common sense fail - develop a process.
|
| Andrew Plato
|

Believe me, Andrew, there IS a process that can help you.


BONNIE GRANAT
Editing & Writing
http://www.editors-writers.info





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