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The zen of minimalism: designing a top-of-class manual for beginners and advanced users

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ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication archive
Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computer documentation table of contents

Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Pages: 103 - 112

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-004-X

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Carl Stieren

Simware, Inc., 2 Gurdwara Rd., Ottawa, Ontario K2E 1A2 Canada

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SIGDOC: ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communications

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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