RE: What is More Important?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

richard -dot- melanson -at- us -dot- tel -dot- com
 
> May I ask everyone a question. What is more important, having 
> the content of a manual written well or having the content of 
> a manual technically accurate, and no they are not mutually 
> exclusive :-) 

No matter how elegant the prose and presentation, if the manual lies to
you, it's bad. But if the manual is accurate, less-than-perfect writing
can be tolerated up to the point where it impedes understanding or
distracts. 

My opinion. YMMV.

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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