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Subject:Re: periods inside quotation marks? From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- PRODOK -dot- CH> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:52:04 +0200
Steve,
As you suggest, I am using boldface to indicate button (and key and ...) names.
From what I have experienced, it can be useful to additionally reduce the
font size by 1 point (bodytext 10 pt, button name 9pt bold). BTW, this is
no problem in Frame, where I created a "Button" character format.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
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>Don't use quotation marks. Use boldface to indicate button names. This
>alleviates your problem. Check the Microsoft Manual of Style or the Sun
>Microsystems Style Manual...I believe they both use the same conventions...
>
>For example (and since bold probably won't carry over, bf will indicate bold
>face):
>
>1. Click (bf)Button(/bf).
>
>I use this and it has worked well for me
>
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