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Subject:Re: mouse/light-pen instruction text From:"Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- JAEDWORKS -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:59:55 -0700
At 3:42 AM -0700 7/4/99, Yaacov Garber wrote:
>When writing user instructions involving mouse commands I would
>write, "..., and then click OK.
>
>How would this be phrased for a user using a light-pen?
"Tap OK" or "touch OK" seems to be what I've seen most often.
If there is some analog to double-clicking, "tap" would probably be better,
since "double-tap" makes more immediate sense than "double-touch".
