Re: KeyCaps style Fonts

Subject: Re: KeyCaps style Fonts
From: "Wilcox, John (WWC, Contractor)" <wilcoxj -at- WDNI -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:18:00 -0800

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From: STORES - Pearson, Christopher
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU

Does anyone have a preference in the Keyboard Imaging Fonts used in
documentation? For example, instead of saying "push <ENTER>" you say
"push --a pictograph of the Enter Key--"

I am aware of the following fonts that allow this: KeyCaps, Key Normal
and Key Extended, and KeyboardKeys...
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Chris, it's interesting that you should broach this subject at this
time. I brought it up a year or so ago, because I had been looking for
the "perfect" key font for years. I had tried KeyCaps, BKcap, and
Keystroke, but each of them presented some problems. Some keys were
illegible, BKcap was missing three keys, some had to be printed at
larger or smaller point sizes, etc. (I also tried one called Qwerty,
but it's only legible at about 28 points -- good in a table, maybe,
but...) I ended up using a combination of BKcap and Keystroke.

To make a long story short, John Cornellier of this list (John, are you
there? -- this is your cue) made some additions and changes to one of
the fonts, and it's about as perfect as I expect to see (until you
finish that wish list, John :o) ). I'll send it to you if you'd like
to see it. And would you please send me Key Normal, Key Extended, and
KeyboardKeys? I thought I'd done an exhaustive search, but I've never
heard of them.

Btw, in response to Carl Bergeson's advice to not use such fonts: I've
been using them for about 7 years with good audience response.


Regards,

John Wilcox, Documentation Specialist
Timberlands Information Services, Application Delivery Group
Weyerhaeuser, WWC 2E2, Box 2999
Tacoma, WA 98477-2999 USA
253-924-7972 mailto:wilcoxj -at- wdni -dot- com
(I don't speak for Weyerhaeuser, and they return the favor.)




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