Re: [authors] PING: Jean

[Gary Schnabl]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote: (1) An example of a checkbox: Fields have a gray background when viewed on screen, unless you have deselected the *Field shadings *checkbox, or changed the color of field shadings, on the Options–OpenOffice.org – Appearance dialog. [The manual used an overridden OOoTableText (It was in a note.) with bold styling. My version is (using OOoEmphasis and OOoMenuPath): Fields have a gray background when viewed on screen, unless you have deselected the /Field shadings/* *checkbox or changed the color of field shadings on the Appearance dialog box (*Options – OpenOffice.org – Appearance*). In this case, the words in parentheses are in fact the name of a dialog box, NOT a path, so they should be in normal type, not bold or italic. If those words were a path, they would start with Tools > Options [...] and use the > sign between the words instead of a dash. I think that in most of the chapters, the names of checkboxes are bold, not italic, but a good case can be made for considering them the same as fields and thus italic (OOoEmphasis). I don't have a strong preference one way or the other. I used a hybrid of OOo and online help styles for variety, especially if the path is only secondary to the immediate discussion. The online Help seems to favor this menu path approach: To access this command... Choose Insert - Envelope - Envelope tab So who writes the online help? When I edited for Motorola's Freescale Semiconductor, the software implementation engineers or other technical editors there used the FrameMaker sources as input to Doxygen for the CHM help files. Gary