Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
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.
I'm not sure who writes the online help; someone else on this list
(GRS?) should be able to tell us.
I don't recall why we chose to use the > symbol in paths, instead of a
dash (hyphen) or a vertical bar; probably it was because that was the
preference of those people who expressed an opinion at the time.
The decision may have been influenced by _Read Me First!_ (Sun's style
guide), which suggests using a right-arrow symbol. The '>' is a
font-neutral alternative to an arrow.
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Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc. http://www.enthought.com
