Re: Display/Appear

["Tony G. Rocco" <trocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM>]

My boss, who shall remain nameless, is much enamored with using "display"
inappropriately. Whenever these discussions about "display" vs. "appear"
come up, I forward them to him, to no avail. He is on a leave of absence
right now, so I can't forward him this thread, but I wish I could talk some
sense into him on this point. Any suggestions?

- tgr

 1:35 PM -0800 9/29/97, Emma Heftman wrote:


>Can some-one please send me the message on when it's best to use appear, and
>when to use display. Some-one, I believe, said that they disapproved of
>"is displayed", but some-one else added that "appears" sounds like magic.
>I'm trying to describe a certain area of a screen.
>Should it be:
>"The line of information that is displayed at the top of the screen refers
>to..
>or
>"The line of information that appears ..."
>or
>" The Device Identity screen displays a line of information at the top of the
>screen, which refers..."
>
>Any suggestions from the experts (please don't refer to the part that says
>the line
>of info, I justused it to simplify the topic).
>
>Thanks
>Emma
>emma -at- amil -dot- co -dot- il

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