Re: Screen captures in multiple lanaguages or just in English? was, "RE: Examples of Minimalist Writing"

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

There's some sort of eye-brain visual recognition process at work. Back in the 
days before SW UI's, we often used text in a rectangular box to represent a 
physical button on a control panel because it was more easily recognized than 
"press the XXX button."

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
>What's the advantage of a bitmap over typing the button text and
>giving it a distinctive style so that the translators would know to
>leave it in English?

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