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Subject:Re: not a slam From:Sella Rush <sellar -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Jun 1998 15:05:47 -0700
In the not too distant past I did what you might call production. I took
the text from scientists and engineers and formatted according to templates,
made changes (basically word processing), did a cursory copyedit,
coordinated with graphics or did them myself, copied and bound the final
drafts, and sometimes walked the damned things over to the EPA personally.
Never, never, never did any templates take precedence over content accuracy.
Sella Rush mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
Applied Technical Systems (ATS)
Bremerton, Washington
Developers of the CCM Database
