About that whacky MS MoS for TPs

Subject: About that whacky MS MoS for TPs
From: "Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:58:28 -0400

About that whacky MS MoS for TPs:

I know it's good to have a style guide. And, it's great to have a style
guide that somebody else wrote, because it saves you administrative work.
And, I acknowledge that I have and use the Microsoft Manual of Style for
Technical Publications. However, what do you all think about this stuff,
that strikes me as really funky:

1) Why capitalize the 'H' in online Help? Really, what, is it a proper noun?

2) Why capitalize the 'T's in ToolTip? That is really strange. What's wrong
with lowercase, except when the initial T starts a sentence, of course.

3) What is wrong with 'grayed-out.' Dimmed? What's dimmed? The lightbulb of
the genius who decided not to use 'grayed-out,' which is a term everybody
understands. "Dimmed,' indeed.

Anybody have any thoughts on these? I would like to institute local
overrides on these as part of a corporate style guide, but am outnumbered by
those who want to stick religiously to the MoSfTPs. And, it's not really
such a big deal for me. It's not worth a battle. But, I am curious to know
how these maroons came up with such garbage.

Cheers,

Sean<br>
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swallow, William [SMTP:WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com]
>
>
> According to my trusty rusty MS MoS, they are commands, and don't you dare
> add "drop-down" or any other type of modifier to "menu" as MS MoS says
> it's
> baaaad. ;)

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