Documentation & Books

[Marian Petrides]

Ah, but what about the hapless person (I certainly have been there) who 
wanders around for a while doing whatever, stumbles on the dictionary 
listing, sees a search box and uses it.  How is that person going to 
know (unless he remembers having seen it) that

a) there is ANOTHER search box he can use
b) (more importantly) that it will yield something different?

It may be obvious to someone who has both search boxes in front of 
himself at the same time (or even one who remembers he saw a different, 
more inclusive box at one time in the past)  but not necessarily to the 
poor foole who is stumbling around in the forest without breadcrumbs.

Not everyone ALWAYS starts at the same place.

::::just as irked:::

M


On Jul 7, 2004, at 6:01 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> <irked>
> Sorry, but it is difficult for me to believe that some one who opens 
> the
> documentation for the first time (seeing the Roadmap page) where there 
> is a
> "Search the Documentation..." link would think they would get *more* 
> results
> by clicking on an *item* in the list ("Transcript Language 
> Dictionary") and
> then executing a search. Sorry, but the first page says "About the
> Documentation", then "All Documentation by Category", then "Search the
> Documentation". It isn't hard to make the cognitive "leap" that 
> searching
> the documentation means searching ALL of the documentation. Come on, 
> people!
> </irked>