Re: Doc Design and Conventions

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

The last software user documentation I did was a menu tree on a plastic-coated 
card that listed the parameters on the dialogs each dropdown opened, plus all 
the "bubble help" blurbs the programmers inserted into the program.  The API doc 
was probably 50X the size of the user docs.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Despopoulos" <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> If that's true, why not just provide an index of controls?  Or to be less 
> flip, is it time for to ship reference guides again?

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