Order of menu commands.

[Chinell, David F (GE Indust, Security)]

I've been thinking about this issue for several years now. I think you'd
verbalize the command with pauses where we print our *fun* arrows and
triangles and symbols. Wheee!

But I think that means we should really just be using commas. That's
what we'd use to verbalize it.

Click Admin, Scheduling, Room Maintenance.

Bear
 

-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+david.chinell=ge.com at lists.techwr-l.com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+david.chinell=ge.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On
Behalf Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 3:22 PM
To: Mike Starr; techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Subject: RE: Order of menu commands.

Mike Starr wrote:
 
> It's certainly not something that I feel comfortable saying out loud 
> either.
> However, given that techwr-l (rightly so) does not permit 
> HTML-formatted messages, there was no other way I could communicate it

> in my message.

I suppose a joke that has to be explained probably wasn't very funny to
begin with, and explaining rarely helps. :-) But I'm compelled to
clarify nonetheless. 

I wasn't referring to saying _the_words_ "right-pointing triangular
arrow symbols" out loud, but the _symbols_themselves_. 

You said you wrote things the way you'd say them out loud. Your example
included "*Admin* module >>*Scheduling*>>*Room Maintenance*" -- so I was
wondering, how do you pronounce ">>"?

It's like asking Prince, during his "artist formerly known as" days, how
he pronounced his name. Call it lame Friday humor. :-}

Richard