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- From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
- Subject: Re: *** Why is rewriting bad ?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:25:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.172314.23411@emr1.emr.ca> <ak09852@pro-harold.cts.com> <77124@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan21.203546.45088@datamark.co.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan21.203546.45088@datamark.co.nz>, thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
- |> In article <77124@apple.apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Crow's Friend Timmy) writes:
- |> >
- |> >I know, I know. Injecting facts into a USENET argument is worth two demerits.
- |>
- |> Yes, but you're just as bad as a Nazi. :-)
- |>
- |> Now this thread has officially reached rock-bottom, perhaps we could
- |> move on?
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- Heh, heh...ok by me.
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- |> ObWriting : When writing a manual, do you index as you go (and risk
- |> all sorts of incompatibilities) or do you index after the bulk of the
- |> manual is written?
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- After its finished. The way we lay it out here, setting the final page
- breaks is an important pre-index requirement. Also, you never know
- what's going to be in or out in some books, really, until the last
- minute. You've already mentioned consistency as good reason to wait.
- Also, the editors get the book last, and they can introduce all kinds of
- changes.
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- |>
- |> --
- |> Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz Work: 64 4 233 8186
- |> Technical Writer | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz Home: 64 4 499 3832
- |> Wellington, NZ | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.
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- No, you don't mean it, do you? 8-)
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- |Len Olszewski, Technical Writer |"The things you see when don't have |
- |saslpo@unx.sas.com|Cary, NC, USA| your gun." - My buddy, Jim McD. |
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- | Opinions this ludicrous are mine. Reasonable opinions will cost you.|
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