Hi Dan and Chipp and...

As you might know it, all my plugins come with a bilingual help stack (between 200 KB and 1 MB each) I shall only say that writing these stacks is a very hard job... often longer than writing the first attempt of the plugin. But this *always* gives me the opportunity to deeply revise ergonomics, interface and functions. I try to write "good and complete" docs not only for the end user benefit (I know that many hate the docs and never read them :-) but because that's essential for me to be able to provide a "good and complete" job :-)

Le 26 juil. 05 à 00:05, Chipp Walters a écrit :

Dan Shafer wrote:


Designing and writing good docs is nearly as hard as designing and writing good software.


I beg to differ! How many software products/code libraries do you know of which don't even have documentation. Poor Xavier and his TAOO project is a great example, while he has told us some great ideas-- w/out *good* documentation, it's really hard to follow... (no disrespect intended, X, I still love you;-).

In fact, without good documentation, much software is rendered unusable. A case might even be made that without the books authored by the '3 Dans,' Hypercard may have never been adopted so widely.

best,

Chipp


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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