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Subject:Templates and plagiarism From:Betsy Devine <bdevine -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:40:16 EDT
You probably all know the FrameMaker templates at <<www.adobe.com>>,
created by David Valiulis and Gregory Wasson. My very favorite example
there is the gorgeous table format for writing procedures that's in
Tempac1, BkStyle4.
I never have written a manual that could use these exact templates. For
one thing, Valiulis and Wasson confine themselves to about three fonts,
none of them my favorites. But I've used _their_ ideas and cleverness
to solve _my_ problems again and again. And I certainly start from the
most likely template I find each time that I build a new template of my
own. But I'd rather consider this homage than plagiarism.
I do agree that selling somebody else's template is wrong, even with
many cosmetic changes.
Betsy Devine Wilczek
bdevine -at- hotmail -dot- com
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