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Subject:Re: Plus and minus sign buttons? From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:31:30 -0700
"Hart, Geoff" wrote:
>
> I'm not enthusiastic about the notion of "define once as 'increase and
> decrease buttons', then simply use increase and decrease thereafter" because
> this assumes that readers will have read through enough of the manual to
> encounter these definitions. As you well know, we can't count on that...
I don't disagree with Geoff very often, but--in a book--I think it's still OK to introduce an idea in detail then assume an increasing familiarity later references. On paper, you would be sure to include Increase and Decrease in the glossary; in PDF, you could even link occurrences of those terms directly to the glossary entries.
In help, of course, I'd just use the in-line graphics.
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