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From: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
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Subject: Re: A call for "3D look" (a la Next) interface guidelines from Apple
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Date: 19 Feb 90 19:24:33 GMT
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In article <1149@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>PLEASE, PLEASE, Can Apple provide what I suspect many people would want - 
>a coherent, integrated SINGLE source of reference for the Mac,
>including reference material, tutorial material, interface guidlines, hardware,
>software etc etc, which is also kept up to date with new models and system
>software as they appear (NOT with delta volumes) ?

In one of the mags they send to developers, their new head of
documentation said he is hell bent on doing this.  I hope
he succeeds, and soon!  Complete new editions of the manual
set *with change bars* at least once a year is what I want!

And, one more thing:  A FANATICALLY COMPLETE INDEX, at
least as good as that paragon of indeces, the one in
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.  It works like this:
you formulate a question, you pick a key word from your
question, you look it up, you find the entry, you walk down
through the subentries until you see the one(s) that might
be relevant (never more than 2 or 3 page numbers without
splitting out into separate subheads!), and you go to a
page number or two.  Try that in the HyperCard Reference,
for example.  Forget it.  And, you use this same index in
the online version of the manuals.

 --dave yost
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