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Re: on custom-built documents & feature databases...
Subject:Re: on custom-built documents & feature databases... From:Charles Cantrell <chc -at- ONTARIO -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:36:16 GMT
tina (c.l.) klein <cklein -at- bnr -dot- ca>
wrote
>As much as I am enjoying this s/he tirade... (Even though
>I am not sure why it comes up in user documentation - we
>don't write in the third person any more, do we?)
If it is appropriate. For example, if I am writing a manual
for a system administrator, and I talk about their user, I
might need to refer to a third person.
