2007-05-23 08:59 AM
2007-05-25 05:03 PM
Laura wrote:One quick note: The standards must be promoted before they can be enforced. Properly promoted they become self-enforcing. Trying to
...although standards have been established (they even published a book on the subject) they have not been enforced...
2007-05-25 05:19 PM
Matthew wrote:Archicad does work pretty well... though I'm eying converting that to a Wiki for better linking and integration with other office manuals.
For those who haven't discovered this yet (or heard me talk about it before); I have found (after years of trying just about everything) that the best program for writing and maintaining the manual is ArchiCAD (especially now that PlotMaker is rolled in). Everyone has it and (presumably) knows how to use it. It publishes the PDFs like a charm - with bookmarks and everything. And you have direct access to all the tools and features you are documenting.
2007-05-25 07:59 PM
TomWaltz wrote:So you're still using it then?Matthew wrote:Archicad does work pretty well... though I'm eying converting that to a Wiki for better linking and integration with other office manuals.
For those who haven't discovered this yet (or heard me talk about it before); I have found (after years of trying just about everything) that the best program for writing and maintaining the manual is ArchiCAD (especially now that PlotMaker is rolled in). Everyone has it and (presumably) knows how to use it. It publishes the PDFs like a charm - with bookmarks and everything. And you have direct access to all the tools and features you are documenting.
2007-06-05 11:31 PM
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2007-06-13 11:18 PM
andyro wrote:Hmmm -- interesting idea...
One idea is to remove pen, fill, line and composite dialogues from the 'draftie's' WE