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It wasn't about sticking it to anyone, or rubbing anyone's nose in it. As a matter of fact, it was a non-writer who wrote it. He's never going to hear from me about how awful his writing was (after all, if his writing *were* any good, there would be less necessity for me!). I wanted the revision marking to show some of our newer writers what they might be up against sometimes when they need to edit some of this stuff.
I already told all of the above to Peter in an offline e-mail. Thanks for coming to my defense.
---Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Harrison [mailto:magdalen2000 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:27 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: "After-the-fact" revision marking.......(Microsoft Word)
...if you fell it is worth while to stick it to the other guy. Candidly,
why bother. Read Eric's piece on getting along with the others in your
org.
> --
> Peter
you're *assuming* he's doing it "to stick it to the other guy."
it sounds like a good way to show Before and After versions of a document
in a portfolio. how else do you illustrate what a great editor you are if
you can't show how awful the document was before you worked your magic on
it?
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