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Subject:Re: Document layout: Whose decision? From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- jaedworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:09:39 -0800
At 12:49 PM -0800 2/14/2001, Sunshine QT wrote:
>guide is set, my templates are set. A programmer who
>usually does not need documentation recently needed a
>doc done and complained that he wants it without the
>side-head - in other words, he wants the lines to go
>all the way across. (He didn't say why.)
Why haven't you asked him why?
>My feeling is that, I don't tell them how to program;
>they don't tell me how to lay out documents. But I am
>willing to listen to *your* feedback. (Since you are
>fellow tech writers.)
Well, maybe that's the answer to my question. If so, it makes me sad.
Ask the programmer why he wants documentation without a side column. There
are a number of possibilities, which break down into two cases:
1) He has a reason for wanting it done this way.
2) He has no reason for wanting it done this way.
You, and much less random writers on a mailing list, can't begin to come up
with a response until you know which.
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