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Eve L. Maler writes: > In my days as a technical editor, we were forced, over and over, to make > decisions that increased the accuracy and quality of information to the > detriment of their beauty. Sounds good to me. Not sure how it relates to FO? > It used to take 4 to 6 weeks to send > camera-ready copy, get salt prints back, check for (can you be-LEEVE?) > broken type/orphans/widows, review corrections, blah, blah, blah. excellent. I bet the documents were better as a result > Being > able to freeze the docs nearer to freezing the code helped our accuracy a > *lot*. Knuth would point you at literate programming, and ask why the docs were separated from the code in the first place. Sebastian *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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