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- From: kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Karen Fegley)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: *** Why is rewriting bad ?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:02:18 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- In article <1993Jan21.203546.45088@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz
- (Thomas Beagle) writes:
- >
- > .
- > .
- > .
- >
- > 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?
- >
-
- If I have my druthers, I wait to index until the bulk of the manual
- is written, the draft has been tech reviewed at least once, and I
- have incorporated the review comments. I find that the closer I am
- to a complete draft, the more consistent are the index hits that I
- insert. Also, because most of the of the *major* changes have usually
- been made to the manual at this point, I spend less time indexing
- material that gets dumped anyway and/or going back to index new
- material that gets inserted. (I don't always have my druthers...)
-
- This is just my personal preference. I know some of the folks around
- here swear by the index-as-you-go technique.
-
- Karen Fegley
- Stratus Computer, Inc.
- kaz@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
-