Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Martina,
Martina Waller schrieb:
Hi Regina,
(...) I will try to include your comments into the help style guide
as far as it is possible.
I have looked at the changes and found
no quotes, except if they are literal
=DATE(00;1;31) yields 1/31/00 if the cell format setting is "MM/DD/YY"
That's such a point which shows the difficulties (and where my
"MM/DD/YY" was bad). If you use quotes in normal texts everyone will
understand it. But when mixed with syntax descriptions they are
dangerous. For example in cell format codes you can also use quotes to
include a text in the format, like
"€ "0.00
I put it here on a new line to separate it from the text. The style
guide must include a rule how to cite settings and other formal
things, without using quotes. Are accessibility tools able to evaluate
tags in the produced HTML code? In that case I suggest to use one of
the HTML elements. HTML tag <q> or <samp> or <code> might be suitable.
Such element can be bind to a style via css, which gives the element
another text color or text style or font or background color or what
you like to distinguish it from text. With such tags you can use
different styles for normal and for high contrast.
My first idea was to omit the quotes. That would work for MM/DD/YY
because the accentuation by capital letters is sufficient here. Text
colors and background colors seem to be too eye-catching for such a
citation.
In the current application help such citations and syntax examples
have very different styles.
Could you give me some examples? That would make it easier to develop an
idea of an adequate style for these cases.
greetings
Martina
kind regards
Regina
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