I went ahead and reverted my crazy italics style changes to what they were, and uploaded a new document to the site. My goof, so I figured I'd save someone a few minutes having to reject those changes. ;)

In regards to Gary's suggestion concerning "dialog" versus "dialog box" I also made a couple changes there as well, adding "box" behind dialog. I agree that it makes a bit more sense, in this context, than having "dialog" hanging out there by itself. His also mentioning the spelling difference between UK and US reminded me of a paragraph I changed in the document in those respects--though it was colour/color that was changed. The rest of the document was using the US version, "color," and since that paragraph was the only with UK spelling I changed it to US for the sake of uniformity.

Anyhow, thanks for all your patience while I'm still trying to get the hang of things here. Like once again mis-labeling the subject line of this email: "Ch3" when the document is "Ch2." I guess I had chapter 3 on the brain since I was thinking about diving into it next. :)

Thanks,
Sak.

Gary Schnabl wrote:
I thought the (tabbed) pages were in bold when they were to be selected (pushed...); otherwise (when not selected), I forget...

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
In the past, dialog box names used default character styles. If any were not, then those would be in error.

Although the names of the dialog boxes themselves are supposed to be in the normal character style, the names of the individual *pages* or *tabs* of the dialog boxes were in italics, were they not? Sak may be talking about those.

--Jean

Sak wrote:

First, the use of italics for naming dialog windows was implemented in some places but not others. I went ahead and italicized the other places, but I didn't see anything in the Style Guide about whether this was a preferred method or not. I'd be curious to know what your thoughts are on this for future revisions or documents that I'm working on.


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