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text underscored = mandatory field
text dotted underscore = optional field
text no underscore at all = display only
Hope this help,
Regards,
David Somers
dmps -at- euronet -dot- nl
> I have (in my plain old non-hypertext non-portable paper manuals) lots of
lists of fields on screens, some mandatory, some optional, some
display-only. I want to remove the current textual indication and flag them
with a symbol or icon. Any ideas? Any standards I don't know about?