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Re: how much "tech" to expect from technical editors?
Subject:Re: how much "tech" to expect from technical editors? From:Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:48:00 PST
At 1:21 PM 3/14/95 -0700, Beverly Parks wrote:
>Nancy Ott wrote--
> <snip>
> > Basically, it makes us look like a bunch of glorified
> > desktop publishers.
> <snip>
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>Hmmm.... I could be offended... If I were a DTPer.
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My $0.02 follows: I know this is a popular position among TWs (that we
don't just pretty up the pages). However, I find that if it isn't pretty,
it doesn't get read. Making the page appealing is just as valuable a
service as ,making the page readable or understandable. I think it all
falls in our job description.
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