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Subject:Re: Which do you think is better... From:Dan 'Fergus' Roberts <droberts -at- PANIX -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:03:22 -0400
Dan Martillotti (danm -at- dev -dot- tivoli -dot- com) wrote:
: Convention 1
: Select the Edit Manager Properties... option from the Edit menu.
: --screen capture of the Edit menu with the Edit Manager Properties...
: option---
: This displays the Edit Local Print Service Monitor dialog.
: --screen capture of the Edit Local Print Service Monitor dialog--
: Convention 2
: Select the Edit Manager Properties... option from the Edit menu.
: --screen capture of the Edit menu with the Edit Manager Properties...
: option---
: The Edit Local Print Service Manager dialog is displayed.
: --screen capture of the Edit Local Print Service Monitor dialog--
: Which of the two proposed conventions do you prefer? Do you have another
Option1: I have a thing about 'this' stuck alone in a sentence with no clear
idea what 'this' is referring to. Minor point here.
Option2: Is also fine.
But what about losing the capture of the menu selection completely?
Is it really necessary?
BTW: when a company that i used to work for started to support translation,
we were told to use "is displayed' rather than "<noun. appears". Supposedly,
some cultures and languages can easily mistranslate 'sppears' to mean
'magically shows up' <although sometimes the software did seem to work by
magic>.
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Dan 'Fergus' Roberts
droberts -at- panix -dot- com
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