Thanks for catching the colour/color discrepancy.
Regarding dialog (box), the Getting Started book use "dialog", NOT
"dialog box", because I (the editor of that book) want the books to be
consistent with the usage in the program itself. However, Gary, the
Writer Guide editor, insists on "dialog box" among other things that
don't agree with the program (checkbox/check box, for example).
Arguing about this and other matters is just a waste of everyone's
time, and it's obvious that neither of us is going to give in to the
other's POV, so...
My compromise is to use the WG style when working on the WG (and my
preferred style in the GS book and -- I think -- in the Draw Guide),
but occasionally I slip up. The chapter on Setting up Writer is a
conspicuous case: some of it is otherwise identical between GS and WG,
except for a few of these usage issues. :-)
BTW, I'm trying to solve the checkbox/check box issue by rewording to
use the term "option" if any designation is required -- which often is
not necessary, IMO. Similarly, we avoid the problem of differences
between US and UK punctuation with quotation marks by not using quote
marks before a comma or full stop. :-)
For historical background info: at one time (several years)
consistency wasn't enforced between chapters of a book (only within
individual chapters), so having whole books made internally consistent
is quite a change.
--Jean
Sak wrote:
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.
