MS Word Question -- about templates

Susan Hogarth hogarth at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 18:04:49 MST 2007


On 1/8/07, Dick Margulis <margulisd at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dori Green wrote:
> >
> > And when Management doesn't have someone on staff who can do this, and isn't
> > willing to pay the designer bucks to bring in a consultant to do this,
> > you're stuck.  And believe me, engineers and systems analysts will find ways
> > to circumvent the "rules" and they have almost no respect for the idea of
> > format consistency.
>
> Just to toss in another perspective ...
>
> Mostly I agree with what Dori is saying, namely that in technology
> companies it's hard to impose template discipline and it's generally
> more productive to bring in an editor.

Both you and Dori call this person an editor, but I would call the
position desktop publisher. Now, a DTP may edit, and an editor may
DTP, but they are different subtasks, aren't they?

-- 
Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com



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