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Subject:RE: what should I say? From:"Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:48:14 -0400
Long, complex, technical documents featuring numbered lists, lists of
reference, repeating style elements, and the like in Quark. No. Bad
idea.
Can you do it? Yes we can. But, the initial offering will not be created
in the most efficient manner, hours, staff, resources, and money will be
wasted, and future edits are going to suffer the same inefficiencies.
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan W. Gallagher [mailto:sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net]
> I find out that she and marketing guy are planning
to pull the manual into Quark on a PC for final release
to print. I don't know if she's done tech manuals in Quark
before.
I'm thinking single-source paper, pdf, and html and idunno
how this is going to work from Quark. Everything I've heard
(and from what I remember from one nightmare job back in the
early 90s) says that Quark is not a good choice for manuals --
even relatively small ones (under 100 pages each).
So, what I'm asking is, is this Quark solution going to work?
And if nobody thinks it will, should I say something, even at
the risk of hurting my relationship with the marketing guy, to
save the client some heartache and hard-earned cash???
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