RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting

Subject: RE: Directions for tomorrow's techwriting
From: "Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:15:27 -0700


-On [20020423 05:45], Lisa Wright (liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net) wrote:
>XML and repository solutions are simply not viable in many
>circumstances, particularly when you have a lone writer or an immature
>organization. Half the writers polled on this list started as lone
>writers.

and Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai responded:

>It is not that hard to set it all up.
>
>Guess I am one of the `old' die hard techwriters on Unix. :)
>Used to like *roff for typesetting and nowadays just use DocBook and
>stylesheets, and it works nicely in combination with Makefiles, pulling
>everything together with teTeX and whatnot.
>
>Once set up, it is easily reused for other assignments.
>
>Best thing, no costs, yet with all the functionality you want [especially
>PDF and Postscript].

In the spirit of the dearly departed Andrew Plato, I have to suggest that perhaps half the writers on this list are not 'technical' ;)

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
702.914.5585
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