Hi,
The general convention (which is based on an ISO standard whose number I
can't recall offhand) is that a Warning indicates the danger of death or
injury to people; a Caution indicates some lesser risk, such as a loss of
data; and a Note indicates some additional parenthetical or interesting
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RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
The use of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes, specifically Warnings and
Cautions, are used differently in different technologies
All the answers I have seen so far seem to relate to HARDWARE.
In a SOFTWARE context, I think it's much more common to
use something like the following (this is my wording, so no official):
Warning: an irrecoverable action (formatting a disk), permanent data
loss or other
action that may result
On 31/07/2011 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 wrote:
Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on
use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked
why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the
way we do it here. I've only used warnings
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 hessian...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use
notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product.
Can you share what sort of product it is?
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Subject: RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
The use of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes
Hi hessiansx4,
Here is how we define them in our doc:
. Warning mention (+ pictogram): WARNING indicates a potentially hazardous
situation which, if not avoided, can result in death or serious injury.
. Caution mention (+ picto): CAUTION indicates a potentially hazardous
situation which, if
, mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: mathieu jacquet bobi...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
To: hessian...@yahoo.com, framers@lists.frameusers.com
Date: Monday, August 1, 2011, 5:33 AM
Hi hessiansx4,
Here is how we define them in our doc
