Dan Lewis wrote:
I need some clarification on this point. It refers to the task pane and
slide pane. When in Impress, the View menu lists them as Task Pane and Slide
Pane. The main window of the presentation has the headings: Slide, and Task.
For consistency, should any mention of these two panes be with both words
capitalized since the View menu does?
Dan,
Apologies on taking so long to get back to you. I wanted to check
some references and some of the other chapters before I
commented. I admit that I was also hoping that Janet would say
something first.
I think the word "pane" in narrative should *not* be capitalised,
regardless of how the View menu lists them. The items in the menu
bar's submenus use initial caps for all the words, but that does
not mean those terms should be capitalised in the text, except
when referring to the menu items themselves, as in View > Task Pane.
Our general style (probably undocumented; I haven't checked) is
to not capitalise the words "menu" and "toolbar" in the text. So
not capitalising "pane" would be consistent with this style. Yes,
I know the various chapters are a bit inconsistent in this usage.
Regards, Jean
