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Subject:RE: Word to describe an empty check box From:Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:37:38 -0500
There's nothing wrong with "marked." I was just correcting a misquote of MSTP, but as I said before, MSTP isn't the gospel.
The gospel, of course, is Strunk and White.
<ducking now>
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From: Keith Hood
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:33 PM
To: Tony Chung
Cc: Dan Goldstein; Robert Lauriston; TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)
Subject: Re: Word to describe an empty check box
What's wrong with "marked" and "unmarked"?
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Tony Chung wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Dan Goldstein wrote:
> <sigh> This is also from MSTP:
>
...
>
Yeah. I was on crack. Wouldn't be the first Canadian to do so...
So I was confusing "selecting" and "unselecting" options, vs "checking" and
"clearing" check boxes.
I don't know where I got "enabled" from.
It should be pretty straightforward to use the adjectival forms:
Options:
- selected
- not selected
Check boxes:
- checked
- cleared
BTW: If you document for Windows systems, they're "check boxes". If you
document for Mac systems, they're "checkboxes".
I guess that's why in general I choose to avoid writing about the controls
because they would be different on every platform.
-Tony
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