RE: Typography for gui items

[Joyce -dot- Fetterman -at- L-3com -dot- com]

Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Maybe you could combine the square brackets with shading/highlighting of
the included text.  Everything inside the brackets gets a light-gray
background, perhaps. 


I use a similar convention (bold text on light-gray background, sans
square brackets) and it works quite well for my users.

Joyce Fetterman
(returning to techwr-l after a too-long absence)



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