Re: Bold or not bold...that is the question

[Susana Rosende <SRosende -at- THEFUND -dot- COM>]

Thank you all for your advice. I liked the idea of using Courier to
designate the information the user needs to type. However, the trainers
preferred Bold. Now it's up to the Technical Publications Lead.

Thanks again for all your help!
Susana Rosende
Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund
SRosende -at- thefund -dot- com
-----Original Message-----
From: Peterson Karen [mailto:Peterson_Karen -at- PRC -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 4:31 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Bold or not bold...that is the question


Dear Susana,

I agree with Wil Gaffga about another font. We use Courier in the same size
to designate file names, directory names, and UNIX commands; and we use bold
Courier to designate typed info.

The only problem we've found is that we use italic to designate
user-inserted information, and there isn't that much of a difference between
regular Courier and italic. Another option is to put user-inserted info in
these brackets <>, but we're afraid our users will type the brackets.

Therefore, if the typed info includes user-inserted stuff, we follow the
line with "where *thing* is the directory name" (I'm using asterisks to
signify italic Courier here).

Good luck,
Karen
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Karen Peterson
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