how long does "fixing" a document take

Carrie Baker carriebak at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 06:34:01 MDT 2007


Thanks for these answers
I can see that I am not spending an extraordinarily long amount of time on this.
There is really a lot of work to be done and of course everything is
required ASAP.

On 6/11/07, neilson at windstream.net <neilson at windstream.net> wrote:
> Two pages a day, exactly.
>
> Unless of course there are any difficulties, such as:
>  - Steps left out
>  - Combinations of actions that lead to stubs that were never
>   implemented, or into coding errors that lead to crashes that
>   you cannot document and for which you must invent workarounds.
>  - Unreasonable defaults that always need to be respecified.
>  - Ambiguously incomprehensible original material that resolves
>   into three additional pages.
>  - Unavailability of the SME to help resolve the ambiguity.
>  - Other ordinary tech-writer stuff that isn't just pounding the
>   keyboard.
>
> Carrie Baker
carriebak at gmail.com


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