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Subject:marquee - jargon or tech term??? From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- STARBASECORP -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:44:34 -0700
Hi gang!
With the current thread of jargon/tech terms, we're
all geared up to solve wording problems, so here's
one that has me wondering...
I'm writing a manual for a version control and other
tools package - geared toward programmers. Included
is a charting package. In the charting package, you
can zoom in on a portion of a chart by dragging the
cursor to define a dashed box. It's the area inside
the little dashed box that the program zooms in on.
Back in the days when I worked on Macs, this "tool to
define an area inside a little dashed box" was called
a marquee. But now I'm in Windows. CorelDraw uses the
term marquee and it's accessible in their help file
via the search function. Surprisingly, Adobe Photoshop
and Fractal Painter do not use the term (at least on
the Windows platform -- at least that I could find).
The term, also, does not appear in the computer
dictionary that I have (Microsoft's).
Question -- will an audience of programmers understand
marquee? If not, should I use the term anyway and define
it in the glossary? Or, should I *not* use the term at
all - and if this is the case, what should I use to
replace it???
Whatcha think?
-Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- starbasecorp -dot- com
