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Subject:Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools? From:stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:21:46 +0000
> On 2/8/07, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> > As far as the product research and writing aspect of my work
> > is concerned, I have NEVER been as productive with ANY
> > authoring tool as I was during the days when I hand-wrote my
> > document manuscripts with a #2 pencil and then sent the sheets
> > over to a team of production specialists.
I remember seeing people write with pencils 8^)
I also remember seeing a writer put off writing a complex installation document until the last week, and then bang out a couple of hundred pages in a few days. He could never have done it without his computer's ability to tie large blocks of text to macros, allowing him to write the highly repetitive procedures.
Copy and paste is your friend... and computers can do it very well.
-- Steve
Steven Jong ("Typo? What tpyo?")
Past President, STC Boston Chapter
stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net, 978-413-2553 [C]
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