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Subject:RE: Current trends in Authoring Tools? From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -dot- Brierley -at- ipc -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:02:56 -0500
I usedta have those things, too.
Now I write content. I work the graphics, too.
But, pretty much, I don't don't lay out the book. I mean, that's already
done, right? Done once and reused forever? I don't even need to know
FrameMaker or Word beyond creating a TOC and index, which I always
needed to do, anyway. I really only need to know how to type content and
apply styles.
Graphics drain my productivity, but they're a welcome diversion. What's
eating your productivity?
Cheers.
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From: techwr-l-bounces+sean -dot- brierley=ipc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+sean -dot- brierley=ipc -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Condo, Candis
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:58 PM
To: ct; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Current trends in Authoring Tools?
Yup. I couldn't agree more. At HP back in the dark ages, I had a
photographer, a graphics illustrator, and a production person who laid
out the whole book.
Guess what I did: WROTE the material. Yes, indeed, imagine that. I owned
the whole process but I WROTE the material.
Sigh. Then came "desktop publishing" and my productivity has suffered
ever since.
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