Re: Gerunds Always in Headings for Online Help?

Subject: Re: Gerunds Always in Headings for Online Help?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:10:38 -0500


I neglected to add to the text below that the Help topic types each had
their own grammatical form:

- Concepts - Gerund
- Procedures - Infinitive
- Reference - Noun string
- Example - "Example: "


Bonnie Granat
http://www.editors-writers.info




>
> When I worked at Parametric Technology, we saw that train before it
arrived.
> We designed a Help system to prevent the problem altogether.
> The Help system had the following topic types, and the Help system itself
> was organized according to subject/module:
>
> - Concepts
> - Procedures
> - Reference
> - Example
> - (It's been more than a year, and I can't remember the last topic type)
>
> Using this arrangement, you could have seventeen "Creating a New
> <Whatever>", but because they'd all appear in different "books" or main
> units of the Help system, they cause no confusion.




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References:
Gerunds Always in Headings for Online Help?: From: Jim Hager
Re: Gerunds Always in Headings for Online Help?: From: Bonnie Granat

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