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Some of my documentation has to describe really non-standard icons. There
are some that it is very hard to even tell what they are, because they are
very small (an hourglass withan arrow inside it? And 16x16?). The tables
have worked out pretty well for me, plus I can make the icons big enough to
see without throwing all my line spacing off.
PT
On 6/18/07, Chris Vickery <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I have a couple of inline images in my DITA-based user manual, but only
> very small icons that don't throw off the spacing much. I like the idea
> of a table if you have more than one image to detail, or just describing
> the icon in words.
>
> Chris
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> I'd like to get input about using button bitmaps to help clarify what
> button
> to click. To me it looks messy when it's used in the middle of a
> paragraph,
> because it throws line spacing off. Your insight is appreciated!
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