Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:
A bad one, empower the reader.
Why are readers more important than authors?
The point of communication is to get your point across to the READER.
For that, you need control over how the information is presented.
If you want to dictate the presentation to them then you are making a
big mistake.
If that were true, then all teachers would teach in exactly the same
style, since doing otherwise would be "dictating the presentation."
There is no such thing. As the RFC corpus demonstrates people want
headers, footers, page numbers.
All of these can be in plain text.
Add those to 'plain text' and you have text that assumes a particular
output format.
Dictating presentation, you mean?
Nope, it's a question of getting the programmer to take remedial lessons
in usability.
If you are generating PDF, you're expected to know something about
electronic publishing, and that includes the use of fonts. In Acrobat
Distiller, embedding fonts is a simple menu option.
Programers who use the manual as an excuse for bugs should be fired.
Authors who don't think that they have to know anything about fonts
should stick to plain text.
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