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Subject:Re: Manual non-standard font question From:Wendy Phillips <wendy -at- SYNERGEX -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:57:44 -0800
Perhaps you can suggest using the special font only on the title page
and in headings? I think this could be a workable compromise. While I
agree that special formatting can be very distracting in body text--and
so should be used judiciously there--a product's technical manual should
render the product name in a way that is compatible with the product's
marketing collateral.
My 2 cents,
Wendy, wendy -at- synergex -dot- com
> The product name includes 32 at the end,
> for example, "Software32" to distinguish it from our older DOS
product. I include a
> non-breaking space between "Software" and "32".
>
> My marketing manager wants to format every instance of the product
name in Brush Script
> and give a superscript appearance to the 32.
>
> I question the readability of this since every page may have multiple
instances of the
> product name. I think that readers may become distracted by this.
