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Re: Typographical treatment of GUI components

Subject: Re: Typographical treatment of GUI components
From: Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:16:23 +0200


My approach to this situation is to violate a rule and risk the wrath of the TW gods. Even though I want to see the label on the GUI use sentence case ("Select an output format"), what I write in the procedure is this (using title case):

From the Select an Output Format list, choose ...

To add some perspective: This solution is not available in many non-English languages. So if you're going to do any kind of localization, odds are that this won't work for you.

Regards
Jan Henning

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