Re: Workplace issues

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I usually advise writers not to specify, promise or estimate 
how many pages a manual will contain, but instead to use
topics.  The only time we talk about pages is when someone
wants to impose a not-to-exceed pagecount limit on a doc.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> Yeah.  Unfortunately, non-writer-types, seeing the estimates worded that
> way, tend to ask for "the hundred-and-eighty-seven pages you should have
> done by now, according to the proposal/estimate..."

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