Motivating end users to read the user manual

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:34:31 +0000, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 
<bodvar at gmail.com> wrote:

>Agree with Shmuel. This is common in "higher" technical documentation,
>called Revision Highlights or Highlights of Changes or similar.
>Sometimes sent as a transmittal letter accompanying the distributed
>manual, and sometimes more like a part of the manual front matter
>pages.

+1

If you want to see an example of it, look at the Mif2Go 
User's Guide, in the opening "About this guide" section,
under "New information".  All the brief descriptions of
changes are linked to the affected content elsewhere in
the manual.

The User's Guide is free, available in a dozen formats
(including Frame 7) at:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm#Mif2Go_UG

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/