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Division of Duties (was: FrameMaker, Word and RoboHelp)
Subject:Division of Duties (was: FrameMaker, Word and RoboHelp) From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:24:02 -0600
Actually, there are places where that still happens. Until last September I
worked at a defense plant where there was a definite division of labor.
There were:
*Writers, divided by Operator level, Unit mechanic level, Depot mechanic
level, and Troubleshooting.
*"Word processors" (their actual title) who did page layout in an old DOS
version of Word Perfect (except for the electronic manual on which I spent
most of my time there).
*Logistics people who dealt with parts lists and stuff like that.
*Artists who did some amazingly detailed line art in AutoCAD (on the
electronic manuals we wrote, you can actually count the threads on the
bolts).
*The customary management overhead.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilger.John [mailto:JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:07 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Framemaker, Word and Robohelp
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the members of the writing team who are
best developers of content (writers) use simpler software such as Wordpad,
vi, or (my personal favorite cyber-swiss-army-knife) emacs to write in text
files and having one or two of your best layout gurus using a good type
setting, markup, or layout program (TeX, SGML, Framemaker, Word ...) format
the stuff and make it look pretty?
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