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Subject:Re: help... please From:Marilynne Smith <mrsmith -at- CTS -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:59:00 PST
When relationships are complicated, diagrams help. Whatever you do, leave
the framis and the chickens out of the final copy. <smile>
Marilynne
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At 02:49 PM 1/17/96 U, Kahn, Stacey wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm on the deadline from hell and have blanked at describing how I've organized
>the information in one chapter of this manual.
>The chapter consists of descriptions of the relationships between various
>components of the framis. To simplify, we've got relationships between the
>chicken and the egg, the chicken and the rooster, the chicken and Farmer Brown,
>the egg and the rooster, the egg and Farmer Brown, rooster and Farmer Brown,
>and so forth (AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD). Actually there are six components,
>which generate a total of fifteen "relationship" sections.
> Each description is maybe a page or two long, so I can't just show it all in a
>chart. And each description shows both "viewpoints" of that relationship: AB as
>well as BA.
>So... how to describe how the information is organized?
>Thanks much...
>--Stacey Kahn
>SKahn -at- wb -dot- com Washington, DC
>speaking for myself and not for my employers
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Marilynne Smith
mrsmith -at- cts -dot- com
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