RE: Advice on menu styling

["Jens Reineking" <J -dot- Reineking -at- interkomelectronic -dot- de>]

For print documents, there is one more way: use a font that offers a semibold typeface.

Jens

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> i share your distaste of beaucoup de bold. i puzzled over this for some time myself. i like things
> nice and clean, tending toward minimalist. too much bold...actually, too much of any kind of
> formatting makes me want to barf. after trying a few different things, i found something i like a
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> i tend toward the microsoft way, but in place of bold, i use a sort of pseudo bold. i create a
> style that i usually call "myStrong" and make it bold, but then i fine tune the color to a darkish
> grey. i don't have the exact hex/rgb handy, but i spent a fair amount of time until i got it
> juuuuuuust right. too black, and it's bold; too light, and it's ineffective.
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> what a difference! or, what a difference to me. i doubt anyone else realizes that the color of the
> word "file" in my step one is different than the color of the "how to bla bla" title just above
> it. but now my word docs and robohelp docs look yummy!
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> ah, sometimes it's the little things in a tech writer's life that make life beautiful.
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> try it.
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> -diotima
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>  --- On Wed 03/09, Patrick Wright < pdoubleya -at- gmail -dot- com > wrote:
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> From: Patrick Wright [mailto: pdoubleya -at- gmail -dot- com]
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> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:40:37 +0100
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> Subject: Advice on menu styling
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> <br>Wondering what people's preferences are for documenting use of menus<br>in a user's
> manual?<br><br>Microsoft uses:<br>From the File menu, choose Open.<br><br>With "File" and "Open"
> in boldface.<br><br>Apple uses:<br>Choose File > Open.<br><br>Not bold.<br><br>IBM
> uses<br>...Microsoft style or<br>Click File --> Open.<br><br>Also boldface.<br><br>I find boldface
> distracting when many menu items are documented on one<br>page, or multiple menus are documented
> in one paragraph. Apple's style<br>is cleaner, but I find it gets lost in the
> paragraph.<br><br><br>Thoughts?<br>Patrick


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