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Subject:Re: Online constructions From:"Bonni J. Graham" <bgraham -at- ELECTRICITI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 3 Jun 1994 18:11:52 PST
Generally I address the reader directly in online doc:
CLOSE (caps to indicate that I'd either put the button in as a graphic or
I'd use some kind of text style to indicate that it's a button name)
Press this button to close the window.
They care what the thing does, but only in the context of how to *make* it
do that...
B.
Bonni Graham
Manual Labour
Director, Region 8 Conference
bgraham -at- electriciti -dot- com
