TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
Subject:Re: HELP From:Rick Lippincott <rjl -at- BOSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Aug 1995 08:44:07 EDT
On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Pat Madea wrote:
> The hidden danger is missing a small hole or leaving some verbiage in
> a large document that I used merely as a textual placeholder.
Then on 9 Aug 1995, Sue Heim wrote:
>An easier way of doing it is to surround the "provocational text"
>with characters that are not used in your text. For example, I use
>double parens around sentences such as "((No idea what to say; need
>to add more here))".
The writers here have come up with an interesting variation. Using
Interleaf, they've created component masters (the FrameMaker equivalent
would be a paragraph format) that are flagged as "To Reviewer." It places
a large, hard to overlook block in the left margin. Reviewers can't help
but notice it, and afterwards it's even possible to delete them all using
just a couple of keystrokes.
I'm sure you could do the same with any of the major DTPs.
Rick Lippincott
Boston Technology
Wakefield, MA
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com
