Re: Bold, Italics, etc.

[Nea Dodson <NeaDods -at- AOL -dot- COM>]

>Do you guys write the
>name of a dialog box in bold or italics?

The conventions in our docs are:

name of screen/dialog box in italics (the _Open_ screen)

name of buttons/keys in bold small caps (press *ENTER*)

text to be typed exactly in a monospaced font (I can't begin to try this in
ascii)

information to be typed in bold italic small caps (enter your  _*LOCATION
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER*_)

I'm lobbying against that last part, which I think looks awful, but so far
I'm being outvoted by the rest of the team.

Nea Dodson
neadods -at- aol -dot- com
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   -- W. Zinsser


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