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Subject:Re: Styles for User Guides From:Sharon Burton-Hardin <sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:55:38 -0700
This is a really good idea and neatly side steps several of these issues. In
my spare(!) time next slow(!) period, I may do just this thing.
My guess is that this issue may be less a legal issue and more an ethical
one. But many times that ethics are more important than the legal issues.
sharon
Sharon Burton-Hardin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Monday, 05 April, 1999 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Styles for User Guides
|One suggestion that I haven't yet seen, is to create two or three templates
|(Traditional, Contemporary, and Experimental, just to give them names) that
|can be "offered" to clients who either don't have the time/budget to create
|a new one, or don't care about a distinctive look and feel to their
manuals..... You make it abundantly clear to your client that these are your
|standard document designs, which you make available to all clients as a
|courtesy.
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