Re: Space bar -or- Spacebar

[Kate Schneider <kateschneider42 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The most recent version of MMOS (the online one sent out here a few months
back) says Spacebar, capitalized.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/a-z-word-list-term-collections/term-collections/keys-keyboard-shortcuts

(I can't say I like it, but I'll begrudgingly accept it.)

Kate

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > And what is your citation?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I like spacebar because having both space and bar in one word leaves
> less opportunity for the reader to assign random weight to either word
> and head off down the path of misunderstanding. No cite; that's just
> my own thinking. Scanning through google results seems to indicate
> that both ways are heavily used.
>
> I'm sure that someone will be along soon to offer something more
> authoritative. ;-)
>
> Bob
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