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Subject:Re: Change Notation in HELP From:Bill Konrad <konrad -at- SAGE -dot- CC -dot- PURDUE -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:23:43 -0500
I missed the beginning of this exchange...but here goes..
> David Demyan wrote:
>> Misti Delaney wrote:
> (snip)
>> any suggestions on how we can indicate to our users that there may be new
>> information since the last time they looked at the help file?
> (snip)
> If Doc2Help allows color formatting in the input, you could try that. Make
> all the new text a different color from the old. But I would make it a
> subtle color change and obviously not green (since links are green).
> Not red since that would signify a problem. How about blue?
If you are using Doc-to-Help, don't use Red or Magenta, since D2H uses
those colrs to mark manual-only and help-only text.
Best,
Bill Konrad
konrad -at- sage -dot- cc -dot- purdue -dot- edu
"Indecision is the key to flexibility."
