On 4/8/2019 10:52 PM, Peter Hall wrote:
Having spent time, over many years, piecemeal updating Jeppersen and CASA (the national aviation regulatory authority) pilot documents, I regard it as wasted time I'll never get back. I hope that Elecraft does not go down this path but agree absolutely that, these days, good searchable PDFs make life much easier. One thing that is always useful is the update register (already often used) and text markers indicating changes from the previous edition (often vertical bars at affected paragraphs).
Yes. This is the modern equivalent of those update methods of yesteryear, and a manual that is in any decent publishing application that can produce a pdf is trivially easy to update and to highlight changes. I consider such practice, along with a "change" list in the form of an appendix or separate document, to be the right way to do it. Any competent tech writer ought to be able make the edits and load the updated manual in no more than a half hour after the editing is complete. I can get a new or updated document on my own website in half that time if there's already a link to it on the main page, another 10-15 minutes if it's a new document for which a new link is needed.
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