On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'm not a documentation expert, and don't want to become one. > I'm a software developer. I've used Word, Frame, and several > other systems for writing documentation on various pieces of > software, but I'm more interested in being expert at writing > software than being expert at using Word etc. But I do recognize > their value. > > I like plain ASCII text, myself. But diagrams in documents > can go a long way in helping understand how a complicated > piece of software works (like a multi-processor debugger > I wrote a few years ago: two separate programs, five > threads communicating via messages). Nice diagrams are difficult > with ASCII text :-) PDF allows diagrams. dia can help you produce them. > Hey, I don't even like HTML in mail messages! Likewise. On my FC3, man dia produces HTML for some reason. I googled to find http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ . -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistle." -- The Jargon File
