> On 3 Dec 2013, at 13:45, Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com> wrote: > > One point about screen captures that should be considered in authoring the > user guides is eliminate their use in most cases in procedural > documentation--and use them only if those instances where they are really > useful. Describing the appropriate menu commands with their associated > submenu commands should suffice for most of the directions. > > For some two decades already here in US (and likely most elsewhere) K-12 > public and private schools, almost all kids routinely have computer > experience by age five or younger. Assuming that the user guides are written > for use by functionally literate folk, overloading documentation with screen > captures is not much useful nowadays. > > In addition, not having many such graphics reduces the document size and > allows for much easier page formatting, especially for smaller page or > display sizes. > > Gary
Many of the people who actually refer to the books keep requesting lots of screenshots and other illustrations. I agree that some of ours are unnecessary, and I often edit them out, but otherwise I believe we are producing what our audience prefers. --Jean -- 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
