Re: Documenting a Touch-Screen Interface

[Meg Halter <aiki4us -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Balchunas, John [JBalchunas -at- orgtek -dot- com] writes

The original author of the manual inserted Microsoft Drawing
Objects into the text when referring to a touch screen button.  
... this takes up a lot of wasted space. 

I have considered something along the lines of what follows (if
you can imagine small caps/bold for Probe Priming Menu):

7. Touch [Probe Priming Menu].  The following window appears.

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Hi John --

I like your idea. But IMHO you still need to include the graphic
of the button.  Perhaps put it in the heading, if it's a
reference manual, as in

2. Frambling the whozits   [graphic of framble button]  

If it's coming up throughout the manual, perhaps you could put
the graphic in the margin, next to where it occurs in the text.

-- Meg



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