Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru question)

["Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

But if we do things to anticipate the error of one user rather than the vast 
majority of our target audience, we'll  be adding reams and reams of 
exceptions to our documents... they'll end up looking like they were created 
by the legal department from hell. Now if that one user could make a LETHAL 
mistake, I'll certainly flag the bejeezus out of it but failing to realize 
that the manual fell open to the second page of a multi-page table? Nahhh. 
Like I said, even if I was using a tool that was capable of adding that 
little tidbit to tables I wouldn't bother (unless of course the corporate 
overlords/PHBs had mandated it in the corporate style guide). Fortunately 
for me, as a lone writer I am the style guide.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: "Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
Cc: "Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>; 
<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Rant continued from previous page (was Re: Another Word guru 
question)