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- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
- To: Eve.Maler@east.sun.com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:23:35 +0100 (BST)
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
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