Re: 'author' vs. 'write'

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

>Jill Burgchardt wrote:
>>>
>I've seen the word 'authoring' used with regard to preparation of CD roms.
>Workstations with CD rom drives that can be written to are commonly marketed
>as "authoring" stations.  This makes me wonder if 'to author' has taken on
>the meaning of 'to produce documentation for delivery on CD-rom'.
<<

Likewise, my first experience with authoring used in this way was with
Interleaf. As Jill said, the meaning may be "to produce documentation
for delivery <snip>". I don't think the target medium is important, just
the act of producing it in a final form. It's kind of a broadened
definition of desktop publishing to cover more than just
desktop-to-laser printer. Authoring includes desktop-to-CD,
desktop-to-Web, etc.

>Bev Parks
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