On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:17:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:17:25 -0800 (PST)
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> To: LyX Developer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Menu Separator aka lyxarrow
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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John Levon wrote:
> > Why do we have this ? It seems a bit ad hoc. Is it just for
> > the convenience of the doc writers or something ?
>
> Put on your asbestos suit! John Weiss is going to hunt you down and smack
> you with his small fish :-) (Find a message from him and look at his
> signature.)
>
> We had a big row about this a couple of years ago when we discussed the
> proper format for the "arrow" to be used in the documentation for things
> like File->Open. I don't remember exactly how we settled on that
> particular rotated triangle, but it was deemed Holy and Pure, and thus
> became policy. While it is certainly crucial for the LyX documentors (who
> number approximately 0.1 right now), any software documentation should
> take advantage of it.
>
> Whatever you do to it, it should be representable in both the LyX window
> and the printed documentation in an obvious, common way (no ERT, etc.)
> and should be obvious as something which ties menu panels together. This
> particular triangle is used in a number of desktops to indicate that there
> is another menu lurking underneath an item. I would argue that it should
> stay in the special character menu, but if you can come up with a better
> name, feel free.
>
> Mike
Agree! I used it in the doc for faxview.
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