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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll send you a PDF. My book is more than personal opinion, being based on > research by numerous people over many years. It has been used in technical > writing courses and may still be in use, although it is out of print. --Jean > > On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Lera <lera.goncha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Jean Weber, >> >> В письме от 17 декабря 2015 15:10:40 пользователь Jean Weber написал: >> > I disagree, and in fact I wrote a book on the topic (Is the Help >> > Helpful). >> I will read your book, if I can find it in free access. I am always happy >> to >> learn something new. But during about 20 years of developing and support >> of >> programs I have got a habit to believe and focus on standards rather than >> on >> personal opinion. >> >> > For Help to be helpful, it often should not be purely >> > functional but also task-oriented description of what the user can or >> > should do to achieve a goal or complete a task. >> Yes, it is normaly. But it don't contain phrases such as "you can..." or >> "allows you to do". Writing tips in the Help is most difficult, because it >> is >> difficult to kipe a good style and show all possibilities. >> >> Best regards, >> Lera -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
