Re: Information Mapping

[Jody LaFerriere <JLaFerriere -at- INFOMAP -dot- COM>]

Richard,

Information Mapping is not a "Layout Approach".  (I'd be more than happy
to discuss this with you offline at your convenience.)

Formatting Solutions is not available for PCWrite or Write On, and as I
noticed in a later message (I am catching up with the digests) we do
offer courses internationally.

Jody LaFerriere
Information Mapping R&D

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>From:  Richard Yanowitz[SMTP:ryanowit -at- NYCT -dot- NET]
>Sent:  Monday, September 01, 1997 9:27 AM
>Subject:       <No subject given>
>
>At 03:40 PM 9/1/97 +0300, Warren Singer wrote:
>>1.Does anybody know details about the methodology for producing
>>documentation called "Info Mapping"?
>
>It's a useful documentation layout approach that mystifies itself with lots
>of jargon and "methodology."  The company's office is in Waltham, MA.
>Their courses are expensive (~$1300 a couple of years ago) and overly long
>but helpful.  I often adapt some of their specific layout approach, though
>it is not fundamentally different from what I'd already figured out from
>years in the business.
>
>I don't know if they do international courses.
>
>When you take their course, you get a notebook/textbook to take away and
>software (for your choice of word processors, at least Word and
>Wordperfect--I don't know if they include a template for PC Write or Write
>On) to help automate use of their layout.
>
>The company is:
>Information Mapping, Inc.
>300 Third Ave.
>Waltham, MA 02154
>
>617-890-7003
>800-MAP-4544
>fax: 617-890-1339
>
>I expect you could find an e-mail address for them by searching on the web.
>
>Good luck.
>
>
>
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