Re: Modularization of Documentation

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote on 06/05/2006 11:53:20 AM:
> Are these books like all the books on structured
> writing that shout "Ya gotta have structure", without
> giving any specifics as how to structure?

You mean something like you own cries of "You must worship 
Yourdon/Markos/Horn!"?

If you discussed techniques and approaches instead of preaching like a 
rabid tv evangelist, you might get a little more respect. But then again 
to have people respect your approach/technique also means you have to 
respect others.

In you diatribe against all other techwriters and the non-existence of any 
other worthy approach or description there-of, how do explain DITA? That's 
an entire documenting strategy based on modules. Other methods of creating 
and managing the modules/chunks exist as well.

Now, to get to the modules we may not draw pretty diagrams that are up to 
your standards, and we may not use a trademarked name for some of our 
processes, but our approaches seem to work none-the-less.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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