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Subject:Re: word processing or DTP From:"Hutchings, Christa" <cwhutchings -at- HOMEWIRELESS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:57:57 -0400
Bernie McCann wrote:
>If the country's greatest technical writer can only use a typewriter,
I'll
>hire him/her.
You can have him, Bernie. ;~D
Seriously though, many of us can't afford to hire a writer who can't do
his/her own page layout. We'd just have to turn around and hire a
formatter too, and why hire two specialists when one good generalist
would suffice? (And there *are* folks out there with both good writing
*and* DTP skills.)
That said, I don't think anyone would argue with the fact that it is
usually far easier to turn a good writer into a competent DTP artist
than it is to turn a DTP whiz into a good writer. If I had a good writer
candidate that wasn't a whiz on FrameMaker but was willing to learn, I'd
probably give him a try.
Cheers!
Chris Welch-Hutchings
Senior Technical Writer
Home Wireless Networks, Inc. mailto:cwhutchings -at- homewireless -dot- com
