RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

"Repeated after every command"? Don't be silly. I begin each
manufacturing procedure with the following:

"If any step in this procedure returns an unexpected result:
* Stop working on the procedure.
* Write a note at the relevant step, including the unexpected result.
* Report the event to your supervisor."

If a window is not displayed when I say it should be, the employee using
the procedure knows what to do.

Descriptions of expected results are specific; responses to unexpected
results can be generic.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:08 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Display, Displays, or Appears
> 
> I don't see how "The XXX window is displayed" does 
> anything more in the event the window is not displayed.
> 
> If it said, "The XXX window is displayed; if not see 
> Section Z, Troubleshooting," that would account for 
> the possibility of the window not being there, but who 
> wants to see *that* repeated after every command in a 
> manual?
> 

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