Re: Writing structured content [recap]

[Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>]

Fred Ridder wrote:
> No, the question is how to train writers how to think outside the
> book and learn how to write self-contained topics that can be
> used in different contexts and assembled in different ways and
> still make sense. Not everything is a question of analysis. Ultimately
> the information still has to be expreessed in words and sentences
> and paragraphs and tables and illustrations so that communication
> can (possibly) occur.
> 

Unfortunately, the more we study this question,
the more I'm beginning to think that it's more
a matter of having to provide guidelines on what
not to include (cross-references to material that
might not be in every context, assumptions about
preceding or following material that might not
be there, etc.) before we can get to the ideal
way to write the core of the topic that remains.

-- Janice

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