Re: Examples of Minimalist Writing

[Milan Davidovic <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Leonard C. Porrello
<Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> A Minimalist approach doesn't preclude reference
> documentation. It precludes giving step-by-step directions covering how
> to do things that users already know how to do or can easily figure out.

Do think that task analysis that's true to the minimalist ][aradigm
would produce topics such as "How to decrease the color depth of an
image to 256 colors"? My impression has been that minimalism is more
focused on user goals such as "reducing the file size" or some such.

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