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| From: Technical Writers List; for all Technical Communication issues
| [mailto:TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU]On Behalf Of Ellen Urmson
| Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 12:07 PM
| To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
| Subject: Italicize Online Help reference?
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| Does anyone know if you should italicize references to online help
| systems? I have been italicizing them, like book titles, but I'm not
| sure if this is the standard?
Normally, you italicize the *title* of a book when you refer to it. Most
online help systems, I think, don't really have titles--or at least people
don't think of them as having titles--so no I don't think there is a
convention to italicize references to online help systems.
