Marc, Standard practice is to use in the documentation the same term (and capitalisation) that appears on the item in the user interface. So if the button says "Login" then the docs would say "You will find the Login button here." or "Click the Login button." or similar.
As for what the button itself should be called, I'm fairly sure that the majority of such buttons that I have seen recently are labelled "Login" or "Logout". The spelling of "login" and "logout" (with or without a hyphen or space) in other sentence constructions is different. For example, as a verb form we would normally write, "To log in, do xxxx." NOT "To login, do xxxx." In the past, we've written things like, "The log-in procedure is as follows..." (where log-in is an adjective) but these days I personally would drop the hyphen and write, "The login procedure..." just to avoid having too many different spellings, the nuances of which are totally lost on most readers. I am aware that some other technical editors have different views on this subject. Hope this helps and does not further confuse things for the website team. :-) --Jean On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > I just thought the the webteam should follow the documentation team's usage > of the terms to add a little consistency to the website. I am just looking > for clarification of usage for this: > > You will find the _____ button here. > > Do you (we) use: > > log-in > login > log in > log -out > logout > log out > > Thanks for the help. > > Marc > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
