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Subject:Re: File names in text From:"Bailey, Doug S" <dsbailey -at- PO4 -dot- PCMAIL -dot- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 1995 13:22:00 CST
>** Don't your pages look like raisin bread? I assume we're talking about
> DOS files, which don't go over 8+3 characters in length, but even so
> all-caps must kind of stick out intrusively on a proportionally-fonted
> page. I'd use small caps and stay away from bold.
We stay away from bold, but we also use ALL CAPS for file and path names.
We use small CAPS for keys on the keyboard. It works out pretty well, IMO.
Doug
Douglas S. Bailey, Technical Writer
System Software Documentation
Intergraph Corporation
Huntsville, AL 35894-0001
dsbailey -at- ingr -dot- com
