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Subject:Emphasising text techniques From:Kirsty -dot- Taylor -at- mincom -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:41:13 +1000
Hi all,
I am working on some updates to the Style Guide that our department's
technical writers use. We produce online documentation in HTML Help
format, all text is in Verdana font. At the moment, we use bold type for
screen names and screen elements. If there are words in the text that need
to be emphasised, bold + italic is used. Most of the style sources that I
have recommend *not* using italic on screen.
The thoughts that we have come up with to avoid italics are either using a
different font (potentially ugly and "wrong" looking) or colour (but there
could be colour perception issues for users). We considered just using
bold, but there are occasions where a word such as and needs to be
emphasised between screen names.
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting around this? Is there some
emphasising technique that you use that you think might work for our
situation?
Thanks heaps!
Kirsty
(Cross posting to austechwriter as well)
Kirsty Taylor - Editor
Professional Services - Mincom Limited
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