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Subject:Re: Re[2]: A Test to Select Competen... From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 3 Mar 1995 20:15:54 PST
I wrote:
>>In many cases, these people had wonderful samples, which they had
>>lightly copy-edited and then formatted with loving care. But a person
>>who does formatting, light copy-editing, and review management is
>>a SECRETARY. Nothing wrong with secretaries, but I was hiring
>>writers.
Carma writes:
>Our Desk Top Publishing Specialists would take serious exception to the
>statement above. They have worked long and hard to acquire the page layout,
>etc., skills required to produce professional-looking publications. While our
>secretaries also provide valuable support, they are DEFINITELY NOT Desk Top
>Publishers.
I'm sure your DTP people would not like to be called secretaries. But
"formatting" is different from "desktop publishing." I didn't mean to
imply that most of the tech writers I've interviewed were skilled DTP
people, because they weren't. They understood word processing, not
DTP. We're talking troff and WordPerfect and Word, not FrameMaker and
Interleaf, or even Quark and PageMaker.
