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Subject:Re: Online Help Style Guidel From:Pat Anderson <panderson -at- ALIAS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 20 Oct 1993 11:30:49 -0400
Reply to: RE>Online Help Style Guideline
re: the anonymous request for online help style guides:
I recently bought William Horton's "Designing & Writing Online Documentation:
Help Files to Hypertext."
(1990, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-40772-5 for the paperback ed.)
It has some great info, all backed up by research. (I hate blanket statements
that don't give a clue about anything that supports them.)
I don't know what the US cost is; up here, it's $41.95: it's probably less
south of the border.
...pat. anderson
technical writer
Alias Research Inc.
(a short walk from the Blue Jay's Skydome)
