Re: RE: Font tussle -- bolding bolding everywhere

Subject: Re: RE: Font tussle -- bolding bolding everywhere
From: Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:44:51 -0500 (CDT)

Ha! Thank you, Dan!

The MS standard produces too much visual busyness, in my (heretical?)
opinion!


On 08/11/14, Dan Goldstein<DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com> wrote:

From MSTP:
Use bold type in procedures for dialog box titles, labels, and options.
Correct
To view bookmarks
1. On the <b>Tools</b> menu, click <b>Options</b>, and then click the
<b>View</b> tab.
2. Select the <b>Bookmarks</b> check box.
However, as my people like to say, MSTP is not "Torah from Sinai."
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Chung
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 1:10 PM
To: Nancy Allison
Cc: [1]techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Font tussle -- bolding bolding everywhere
Along with other suggestions to enforce a style guide, I would provably
steal from the DITA play book and wrap every UI control label as a
UIControl style (or in a UIControl element, if using XML). Then you can
set the style for all UIControl elements at once.
I thought MSTP said to italicized labels and bold commands. But I could
be mistaken. Depending on your target audience, you should just pick
from MS, Apple, or other favourite style guide (Yahoo?) and leave it at
that.
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