gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) (11/10/89)
We here in the Technical Publications department are looking for some
good tech writing/desktop publishing magazines. We are looking for
mags a bit more technical than Publish! i.e. something more related to
writing computer manuals (which is what we do :-).
Could anyone please email me the names of any good magazines that you
may read or have heard of?
Thanks...
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jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) (11/16/89)
> Gerry Lachac writes: > > We here in the Technical Publications department are looking for some > good tech writing/desktop publishing magazines. We are looking for > mags a bit more technical than Publish! i.e. something more related to > writing computer manuals (which is what we do :-). There is virtually nothing available. PC Publisher is amateurish Personal Publisher is worse Publish! thinks it's Spy Magazine and gives bad advice with terrible graphics in the name of Trendiness You may be interested in the publications of the Society of Technical Communicators -- the professional society for technical writers. The problem I have found is that their features are very well written with almost no content -- except for the articles about how writers should be professionals, those are filled with hypocracy (sp?). The best available publication is Step-By-Step Electronic Design. It provides several articles each month on how to create various graphics and/or publication designs with the steps and screens for the programs used. They include all major PC and Mac page layout programs and illustration programs. The problem is that they are more oriented towards magazine type and advertising subjects than technical writing. While I would highly recommned this publication, it is somewhat off the subject. As I said, there is virtually nothing available. If you want to seem some copies, want more information, or want a copy of a survey of computer systems for technical writing and references to books on the subject, give me a call. Please note that I cannot usually return email (it bounces). Jim Winer -- The opinions expressed here are not necessarily and do not represent nor in any way imply of any other sane person and especially not employer. "My reply is that such pre-theoretical conceptual essences are often riddled with deep ambiguity and internal incoherence, despite strong convictions people have that they know what they mean." -- Aaron Sloman 201-957-6068 (w) 201-899-0804 (h)