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I am a documentation specialist for a government contractor and in
charge of setting standards (b/c right now, we sort of do/sort of
don't have consistency amongst our contract documents.) One thing that
has come under some discussion with the writers as of late is as
follows....
For notating tab titles that appear on a computer screen, the current
standard is to capitalize the name.
<snipped>
I have the opportunity to counter this capitalization-standard but
what I need is backup, like research or "many in the industry are
doing it this way" sort of material to move forward. With that in
mind, I thought I'd start here.
So...where do you stand on anything that's showing on a screen being
bolded? How are folks handling that distinction for the user if that's
not how you're doing it, and how did your group come to this decision?
At the very least, does anyone have handy some research that points to
one way over another?
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Erica L. Bruce
Technical Writer/Documentation Specialist II
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I'm also a Documentation Specialist on a Government contract and our
style guide calls for bolding, title case on on-screen text. The
convention was in place from before I got here, but we rely on the
Microsoft Manual of Style, if that helps.--Eva Whitley
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