Re: submenu, sub-menu, or sub menu?

Subject: Re: submenu, sub-menu, or sub menu?
From: Averil Strauss <averil -at- LEGENDCOMM -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:25:04 -0400

>I am documenting about using the menus in my PC based software. Sometimes
>you click on a menu item and it opens a sub menu (submenu, sub-menu) that
>the user may select from. I tend to use Microsoft as my guideline for
>writing these types of terms, but haven't been able to track this one down.

Having been blasted by programmers for this, I have to ask, is this a
Windows app? If so, almost certainly all are inappropriate.

When doing DOS, I used "submenu", sub being a normal prefix.

Averil
Legend Communications, Inc.
Developers of PostScript Software

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