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Re: Style question about quotes

Subject: Re: Style question about quotes
From: "Kevin Amery" <kevindamery -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:26:33 -0500

On 11/27/06, Janice Gelb <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com> wrote:

Our internal style does not use quotes. We use initial capitals,
not bolded.

There are several reasons why we do not format GUI items
with bold or other special formatting:

* In procedures that are performed in a GUI, every step
would contain probably at least a couple of items with the
special formatting, so picking out GUI items from regular
text would not really be all that easy. Plus the procedures
start looking like ransom notes.

* We want users to read the explanatory text between menu
item and button names. We don't just want them randomly
clicking and choosing things that are in bold or some other
formatting.

-- Janice



At my former employer, we had a character style for UI elements that
used a different font. the idea was to make it easier for customers to
recognize what they should look for on the screen.

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Until next time...

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RE: Style question about quotes: From: Beth Agnew
Re: Style question about quotes: From: Janice Gelb

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