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Subject: Re: FONT STANDARDS
From: Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>
To: Anna Langley <alangley -at- ts -dot- checkpoint -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:14:04 -0600

No one seems to be biting today, or perhaps only off-list. Courier makes me cringe due to it's ugliness.

My doucments are usually:
tahoma for commands and strings (all code), unless is a publisher protocol to use something like times or arial, which it is for certain publishers I've worked with.
tahoma for file names, but rarely do I ever use file names in doco
tahoma bold for menu selections separated by | as in File|Open
tahoma bold for keyboard, and menu
tahoma for dialog buttons or screen buttons but tahoma bold for dialog or screen name

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Michele

I got out of Babylon, but there was no Zion. No Promised Land.
www.krautgrrl.com



Anna Langley wrote:

Dear Technical Writers:

I'm working on my team's document template. I'd like to know the font
size/style standards you've developed for:

Commands and strings.
File names.
Directory names.
Utilities.
Menu selections.
Keyboard, menu, and GUI buttons.

Right now, we don't have a standard, except that we put commands in a
Courier font, and everything else doesn't get a separate font style. I've
looked in my Chicago manual, and can't find a recommendation. So I'd like to
know what you're doing.

Thanks so much for your help!

Anna Langley, Education Services
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
alangley -at- ts -dot- checkpoint -dot- com








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