Identify the audience. Use this text to promote the features of the document that are particularly useful to the target audience. If other books cover similar information for a different audience, direct the reader to those books. For example, if this document is targeted for entry users, indicate the books that developers might want to read for more in-depth information.
The audience description might include the following information:
Required knowledge, such as a specific programming language
Required experience or familiarity with the Solaris operating environment or a hardware platform
Definition of the type of user or functional responsibility, such as applications programmer, system administrator, or field engineer
Terms that relate to the tasks the user might perform
[Editor's note: Resist any temptation to write “Those of you...,” “Some of you...,” or similar wording. Remember, only one person at a time is reading.]