On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 15:46, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, at 2:55pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> You're not missing much! It's a nice idea (if you live in > >>> TheoryLand :) but it's just way too complicated for lazy people > >>> to bother with! > >> > >> Hey! Them's fighting words! The real problem is that ... > > > > I found DocBook to be really easy. All I needed was ... > > You people are making a classic mistake, in not realizing what the user > (Derek, in this case) ) really means. Derek's a bright fellow; he > understands things much more arcane than DocBook, and I'm sure DocBook is > will within his capabilities to understand, if he wanted to. > > Derek's issue here is that he hates writing documentation. No amount of > technology is going to change that. :-)
That's why there's a lot of tech writers out there. Most of the ones I know are bald(ing), probably from frustration at engineers that hate documenting things ;) > This is an instance of a common problem today: People often overlook the > fact that the ability to work with complex systems and the ability to > document complex systems are two different things. :-) In just about every place I've seen (DB included) documentation is a very low priority. In OSS-land, it's about the same priority as the UI. -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
