RE: Another Punctuation Question

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Harrison
> Sent: January-31-12 4:00 AM
> To: NuVision Communications; Techwr-l
> Subject: RE: Another Punctuation Question
> 
> I believe Debbie's trouble comes from using standard "quote" markers to
> identify a "button" and, since "quotes" have their own special rules
> within grammar, then they are only going to exacerbate the matter.
> 
> Sharing a similar problem, and not being tied by a company style
> manual, I was able to set my own standard and now use the [button] and
> tell users touch [Set], to open the menu, and select [Enable] to
> confirm the task.
> 
> At least they look like buttons and it doesn't get dragged into the
> "quotes" dilemma.
> 

A big "me too" on that. For about the last half-dozen years, I've 
been using "Press [ Enter ]" and "Click [ Next ]" and similar 
for both hardware key-presses (on keyboards or device keypads), 
and software UI selections.  Maybe I got the idea from David.  

It has yet to conflict with punctuation... 

 -k

(Yes, I prefer a space before and after the word or symbol inside the square brackets.)
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