Re: In praise of editors...?

Subject: Re: In praise of editors...?
From: Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:27:47 -0700 (PDT)

Their professional bookshelf is in my opinion quite impressive, but
their user-level documentation often suffers, although I see steps made
toward improvement of late.

Some of the best Microsoft documentation doesn't come from Microsoft,
but sources like this:
http://www.mvps.org/

--- Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> What they do write is
> reasonably well written -- though it fails to answer my questions as
> often as it answers them, or provides answers that don't actually
> match the behavior of the software.



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