atw: Re: Technical writing at Shell

A few years ago the MAC paradigm was totally incompatible with MS and the
result was chaos for anyone who needed to work between MS and MAC.
Consequently Mac in general industry became a dirty word. It is now at a
point where I am ready to return to the fruit box. I grew up on Apple -
starting with Apple IIe at high school. And continuing on into my early Uni
years.

Oh the anaesthetic savings in scotch and brandy I won't require.

Regards
Warren Lewington
wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx

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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Read
Sent: Wednesday, 4 November 2009 9:39 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Technical writing at Shell

Hi guys,

The Macs are definitely becoming more affordable, but don't have Linux
advantage of being free and providing an avenue to 
resurrect old hardware. However, if you get comfortable with some of the
Linux writing tools, most of them will also run on 
Mac OS X.

I was surprised, when I began to look at the Technical Writing industry,
that Macs seem to be second class citizens when it 
comes to the large commercial toolsets.  I had assumed that because Mac was
big in the publishing industry (well, at one 
time) that they would be big in this specialisation.  I am very surprised,
for example, that MadCap tools aren't available on 
Mac OS and also some of the dedicated Adobe products aren't either.

Hopefully that changes because I think Mac OS X has a very productive user
interface.

Evan.



On Tue Nov  3 20:17 , "Terry Dowling"  sent:


>
>Gedday Martin,
>
>B 
>
>I recently did some less-technical
>work for BP and found that their focus on safety was pretty sound. I think
the
>guy I worked with and for was pretty good at getting the info I needed from
his
>colleagues, but he obviously found me more helpful than their helpdesk for
>solving doc problems. I still (three+ months after concluding a three-month
>contract) get calls from him whenever he wants to do anything beyond his
>experience with MSWord.
>
>B 
>
>I think the large
>corporation thing may mean they have styles that they want to follow, but
BP
>hadnb

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