Thank you for the reminders Jean. These are things that are easy to
forget. And more importantly, we can't expect new members to suddenly be
profecient on every aspect of the style guide. So it's a smart strategy
to pick the most common mistakes and post an email covering those. I'm a
fan of focusing on the 10% of possible errors that people make 90% of
the time.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I know it takes awhile to become familiar with the various characrer and
paragraph styles we use in our docs and they can be confusing,
particularly if you're used to a different style in other work you do.
So now and then I'll post a few reminders about formatting and style for
authors and reviewers. Here is today's list:
1) Although some menu items have 3 dots after them in the menu, our
style is to NOT include those 3 dots in the documents. So, for example,
we do NOT write "Preferences..." but instead we write "Preferences". See
"Menu Paths" on page 5 of the Style Guide.
2) Highlighting: The names of windows and dialog boxes are NOT put in
bold or italics. I could not find anything in our guidelines that
specifically said this (although no highlighting was specified for those
items), so I just added a note to the "Character styles" section of the
Template How-to (page 3) making this clear.
3) The names of fields and tabs in dialog should be in the OOoEmphasis
style (which displays as italics), not the OOoMenuPath style (which
displays as bold).
OOoMenuPath is used for all menu paths, including context menus (from a
right-click) and for button items, such as OK, Insert, Open, and so on.
See "Character styles" on page 3 of the Template How-to.
Cheers, Jean
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