Re: E-Primer

Subject: Re: E-Primer
From: Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 14:02:00 PDT

>> How do you say "The program manager window is now
>> displayed" without going into gory detail like "Windows
>> now displays the program manager." This isn't so bad
>> once, but I'm doing a step-wise manual for a Windows
>> application, and if every other sentence starts like
>> this, I think it would get tedious to read. Plus, I think
>> people just don't care what's causing something to
>> happen.

>>

>The program manager window displays.

Actually, our style guide frowns on using "displays" as an
intransitive verb. Anyone else subscribe to that
prohibition?

-- Mike Pope
mikep -at- asymetrix -dot- com


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