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I couldn't agree more re: manuals and help not being one
and the same. However, with judicious use of conditional
text and modular development, you can easily reuse information
from the same file -- cutting your development and maintenance
time.
A.
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Alexia Prendergast
Senior Technical Writer
Seagate Software
alexiap -at- sems -dot- com
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>From: Arnold Colodner[SMTP:Arnold_Colodner -at- MAIL -dot- STIL -dot- SCITEX -dot- COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 3:01 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Technical writer dream
>
> Sorry, I think you are talking about a nightmare, not a dream. Too
> many people think that you can repurpose material by just converting
> format. Tell, 'em, it ain't true!!
>
> Printed manual and on-line help are not one and the same.
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