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Re: Single Spacing: Brain vs body

Subject: Re: Single Spacing: Brain vs body
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:29:47 -0400


David Chinell wrote:

I'm still not convinced that bolding interface element names
helps anybody, because I haven't read any studies that show
people's eye's actually track that way

I don't really care much about studies or eye tracking... but sometimes you need to find a way to set off your element names, just for simple clarity. The two things driving this, IME, are:

1. Proliferation of multi-word titles for commands and other elements (i.e., the Get User Info command). It's a lot easier if they can just stick to one or at most two words.

2. Use of 'down' title case occasionally makes sentences bizarre or ambiguous, unless you have some other way to set off the element name (i.e., the Get User Info command vs. the Get user info command.)

I really don't care how it's formatted - Bold, italic, quotes, whatever; you can just tag it with a style and format it later. The problem is that it becomes a manual proofreading chore to identify and tag all your element names. My clients usually don't care, they'd be annoyed if I spent their time on that sort of thing.

Mike O.


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