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conventions for presenting Win and Mac keyboard shortcuts?
Subject:conventions for presenting Win and Mac keyboard shortcuts? From:<llittle -at- words-tw -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:45:45 -0500
Now that my client's app is available on the web, they have their first Mac
users. A very minute proportion of their users, in a Win-based industry, but
we still have to embrace them and any who follow.
There are a few places in the help where we refer to Windows keyboard
shortcuts. What is a good way to address the Mac differences? Inline (making
it more cluttered for the majority who are not on Mac)? Perhaps a stylistic
difference? A separate reference topic?
I toyed with using a glossary popup on "Ctrl" = "Mac: Command key", but
that is not always a straight swap as illustrated in the example that
spawned this discussion:
Ctrl+Enter to create a new line
=
Shift+Command+Enter
All opinions and suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Laurie
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