RE: To Space or not to Space

Subject: RE: To Space or not to Space
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:16:42 -0400


New writer? How about this morning?

I complained all morning how a particular functionality wasn't described
in the Functional Spec. Finally my boss passed my complaint to the
development VP.

The response that came down 5 minutes later was "Did he look on page
99?" Yup...exactly where the document's TOC said to look.

oops

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Isogon Corporation
http://www.isogon.com
"Realizing Your Business Goals
Through Software Asset Management"

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:05 PM
To: John Posada
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: To Space or not to Space

John Posada wrote:

> Dick...why would you want to wean them from something that to them,
> made the documentation clearer? Please tell me it wasn't the one-space

> rule, for the sole sake of the rule?
>

Because I was younger and smarter than I am now. John, you never did
anything stupid when you were new to this field?



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