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The ellipsis is a signal that the menu item leads to another menu or
dialog box. There is little point to including it in the manual. The
confusion with sentence punctuation far outweighs any imagined
benefit. ...RM
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Anon TWer <anon_twer -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Got my redlines back. Nope. Manual has to match the software. If it says Open... in the UI, it has to say Open... in the manual.
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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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