Re: Toggle on/off or Turns on and off

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

John,

When I was the one-and-only writer here and we were very early in the 
development of the product, I established authority over what was 
exposed to the user through the GUI--field labels, buttons, error 
messages. I had one of the programmers knock out a script that extracted 
every line of source code containing screen text of any type and printed 
a document for each source code file. I then redlined the printouts and 
handed them back to the developers.

When we expanded to the point that we now have a department responsible 
for user documentation and I spend my time elsewhere, the methodology 
changed, but the responsibility remains the same. The doc team works 
with the design team to edit all screen messages at the design spec 
stage and has the authority to change them at the implementation and QA 
stages, too.

So I don't know how unusual it is, but we've always done it that way here.

Dick

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