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Subject:RE: Do as they say, not as they do From:DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:49:18 -0700
Alan,
*Excellent* point. I stand corrected.
Dan Goldstein
> Alan Bucher wrote:
> Actually, no. It was the implementation of the HTML Help system that
> didn't follow a rule in the style guide. The app was just the viewer,
> not the style guide itself.
>
> If you were viewing the style guide in a Style Guide app that was
> designed and dedicated for just that purpose, then there would be
> more room for mirth.
>
> > DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com wrote:
> >That having been said, a style guide is not just any piece of
> >documentation, and the case in point was not just a simple typo. It
> >was a sentence in the style guide that directly contradicted the
> >style guide's own rules, and that made me laugh.
>
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