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Subject:Re: To mouse or not to mouse? From:Kathi Jan Knill <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- TEMPLATE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:39:11 -0400
Kami,
If the user is using the scroll bar to pan over to more data,
then you should probably avoid changing a common phrase such as
(the one I just used), to a less common phrase (such as the one
you proposed)
Of course this is just my opinion, and only if the user uses a
scroll bar. If the user just moves the mouse to the right and
the screen pans to show more data, then maybe "mouse over" would
be more correct -- you got me on that one.
Kathi Jan Knill
Sr. Technical Writer
Template Software, Inc.
Kathi -dot- Knill -at- Template -dot- com
Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.
Was it worth it?
>
----- Original Message -----
From: Parker, Kami {41-1~Indianapolis} <KAMI -dot- PARKER -at- ROCHE -dot- COM>
To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 1:18 PM
Subject: To mouse or not to mouse?
> I have been lurking and learning for awhile and the time has
come to seek
> your advice.
>
> As you know, recent discussions have included the use versus
utilize debate
> and the creation or perpetuation of techno-speak jargon. So as
fate would
> have it, I just received a similar edit to a draft and I am
interested in
> your thoughts, ideas, or experience. (Notice how I slipped that
serial comma
> in there.) Here goes:
>
> Original: Scroll over the bar to view detailed data about the
graph. (The
> function-"ality" is similar to a tool-tip.)
> Proposed: Mouse over the bar.....
>
> I looked in the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical
Publications and
> even though it describes "using mouse verbs correctly" it
doesn't provide
> any correct or incorrect examples of using Mouse as the verb.
I also looked
> in the archives for an answer but what I found dealt with the
"mouse" verbs
> of move and click but not mouse as the verb. I am not crazy
about the
> proposed revision, although it does make sense, and I am not
married to
> scroll. What do you think?
>
> I am relatively new to the list so bygones if this has already
been hashed
> out.
>
> Thanks,
> Kami
>
>
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> Software Synergy, Inc.
> at Roche Diagnostics, Inc.
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