RE: Poll: How do you differentiate commands, etc. in text?

Subject: RE: Poll: How do you differentiate commands, etc. in text?
From: "Jones, Donna" <DJones -at- zebra -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:29:33 -0500

Hi Diana,

I would lose the bold around the name of a window. Initial caps are
enough because the user doesn't need to do anything with the name of a
window other than read it. The bold adds unnecessary visual noise and
competes with what the user truly has to be concerned with (such as what
you need to click on to get that window to come up).

I think we use bold the way you do in the remainder of the examples. In
Frame, we created a character tag called GUI for just that purpose. If
we choose to change the way that this stuff appears (maybe we want it to
be 72-point, red, and flashing but not bold), it would be a simple
matter of changing the way that one character tag appears, and that
wouldn't affect anything that simply needs just to be bold.

Donna



> -----Original Message-----
> What do each of you do (if anything) to emphasis text for online use?
> So far, I am doing something like this for procedures:
>
> 1. Click this (bold) and the Blah (bold) window appears.
> 2. Select the Name (bold) field and type your name.
> 3. Click OK (bold) to save the name and close the window.

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Poll: How do you differentiate commands, etc. in text?: From: Diana Ost

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