RE: Quotation marks around user interface labels

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Robert Lauriston wrote:
 
> Given my choice, I don't use character styles for UI elements, text
> strings, and so on. I don't think the value added for the user is
> proportional to the additional work required.
> 
> For example, "Select Tools > Out of Office Assistant > 'Send Out of
> Office auto-replies' > OK" takes me 15 seconds to type. Apply
> individual emphasis tags to each of the four UI elements and, unless
> the tool you're using makes it easy to apply the right tag from the
> keyboard, it takes two or four times as long. <snip> 

In that example, I wouldn't apply the char tag to each of the four individually, but to the entire string, including the >s between the menu items. 

And since I'm using the right tool (FrameMaker), it takes me no more time to do that than it takes you to type those annoying quotes. ;-) 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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