RE: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indents andheads are reasonable?

Subject: RE: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indents andheads are reasonable?
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:57:06 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lewis
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:25 AM
> To: Raj Machhan; Ned Bedinger
> Cc: techwr-l List
> Subject: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many
> levels of indents andheads are reasonable?
>
> It is easy to tell a TW to be correct, but, if that
> is as far as it goes, it is nothing. Being correct
> means having performed a rigorous analysis. Such
> analysis is based on identifying the essential
> tasks to be performed and, most importantly, the
> interrelationships between the tasks. Unfortunately,
> nobody within the TW community -- either in academia
> or industry -- has discussed this. So incorrect
> documentation is pretty much gauranteed.
>

Except for your own, right? I'm assuming that *your* documentation is
correct, since you are the only TW in the world (in either academia or
industry) who performs a rigorous analysis of the essential tasks to be
performed and the interrelationships between those tasks.

Got any samples for us?
































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