Re: Using the STOP methodology

["Dan Roberts" <droberts63 -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

I could (and probably am) misunderstanding a lot of things here, but couldn't
either of these two types of documentation make use of the same, effective
transitions, and aviod the worse?

Isnt part of the current thought about online documentation that the writer has
to present the topics in a way that will lead the reader to the next best topic?

or is there a bigger distinction that you see between transition types, than
between these two examples:
"For more information about downloading the file to your computer, see
"Downloading the file to my computer" (on page xx <for print>).".
"For more information about downloading the file to your computer, see below."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan W. Gallagher" <SGallagher -at- akonix -dot- com>

> Online document, for example, does not lend
> itself to the way in which we transition from one topic
> to another in the linear model. There is no need for
> transition from one topic to another; rather we are
> prohibited from writing those transitions because we
> really don't know what transitions will occur.


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