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Subject:Re: Style Guidelines for pull-down menus From:Jan Stanley <janron -at- CONCENTRIC -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 6 Aug 1999 11:22:07 -0400
Audience is all.
The construction "From the Tomato menu, select BetterBoy" is
stilted and unlike the way we *speak*, but I've cringed and used
it because I've been *writing*, and the docs I've written have
been primarily for novice users. As Kathleen said, "novice users
may need to work as they read."
If I were writing for more expert users and could use a
"shorthand" construction, I still wouldn't write "Select
BetterBoy from Tomato." I'd write something like "Select Tomato
> BetterBoy." (Strikes me as interesting that this "path"
<stitch> is the same one I'd use for novices.)
