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Subject:Re: Oh, no - not another learning experience!! From:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:38:20 -0400
From the tech writing perspective, I've heard, and I'm sure others have
heard more than once, "Just start writing. We don't need to waste time
on a documentation plan, for gosh sakes. I'm sure everyone here
understands what we are doing."
Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> If I was intent on pressing the point, I'd gather together some other
> members of this organization who don't understand "Mike's" context so
> it's evident that things aren't as clear to the intended audience as he
> seems to think they are, and let him know that I'll be referring
> everyone's questions about it to him in the future.
Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices. http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/
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