Re: Most illogical documentation

[cupton -at- syclone -dot- net]

I once worked with someone who always included three tables in his
installation manuals:

- Standard Options
- Optional Options
- Custom Options

TGIF
Carolyn

> This seems a Friday-ish topic for tech writers.
>
> What is the most illogical bit of tech writing you've seen?
>
> The earliest, and still one of the best, that I've come across was a
> passage about how to open the box. You could only have opened the manual
> if you had opened the packing box beforehand. (Manuals were not handed out
> like candy by the sales people, either -- too expensive. So really,
> honestly, if you were reading that page, you'd already opened the box.)
>
> It even had a picture of the flaps of the box being opened and an arrow
> showing that the stuff had to come UP out of the TOP of the box, which is
> where the flaps were OPEN.
>
> Naturally, I personally have never written anything quite that illogical,
> not even under duress! I swear!
>
> --Nancy
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