[Rd] how to document stuff most users don't want to see

[Patrick Burns]

Under the system of development we
now have, I agreee with Seth's
assertion.  But if there were
people dedicated to documentation,
then I think something like what I
described could be workable.

Pat


Seth Falcon wrote:
> Writing good documentation is hard.  I can appreciate the desire to
> find technological solutions that improve documentation.  However, the
> benefit of a help system that allows for varying degrees of verbosity
> is very likely to be overshadowed by the additional complexity imposed
> on the help system.
> 
> Users would need to learn how to tune the help system.  Developers
> would need to learn and follow the system of variable verbosity.  This
> time would be better spent by developers simply improving the
> documentation and by users by simply reading the improved
> documentation.
> 
> My $0.02.
> 
> + seth
>