On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Tracy Reed wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:22:06PM PDT, Jo Rhett spake thusly: >> Every document has its own stylesheet. Every one. Want to change the look of >> a >> section? Edit every page. > > I think people worry too much about the look of their internal documents. > Thus > the hassles with section stylesheets, WYSIWYG builders not rendering > correctly, > etc. Everyone here learned basic wiki markup and if they need need anything > fancier they are either over-complicating things/wasting time or the wiki is > the wrong tool.
I don't think you realize it, but you're preaching the choir. I want to write docs quickly, without thinking about formatting. If someone wants to spend time thinking about fonts and headers and such, that's great, but I get pissed off when I am forced to think about these things when I have better things to do. Unfortunately, "other business needs" seem to dictate "more powerful" choices that really just slow me down. There is one and only one feature I want: the ability to separate a header from paragraph from a section of fixed-font code. That's all I need. Neither Sharepoint nor Confluence make that easy, in particular because neither one allows any other markup in those blocks of text. Both of them require me to spend time formatting the document, and I am not a desktop publisher for a reason. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
