On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:33:36PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
> > - The comment about "'dialog' is a programmer term" is a bit dated.
> > Even st00p1d Mac users[1] know what a dialog box is. To me, "popup"
> > is a menu or tooltip. (Not that I think it will get changed, but
>
> actually, this will get changed. the doc team agreed some time ago to
> standardise on "dialog". In other words, I agree completely ;)
Probably "dialog box" the first time it appears, "dialog" after that.
>
> > - The "put a (tm) after PostScript or we'll get sued" is also, shall
> > we say, shrill. Unless the team has been warned repeatedly, the worst
>
> Which version have you checked ? I think Mike has already made changes in
> the 1.2.0 CVS doc tree ...
I haven't toned the Postscript (tm) :-) stuff down yet. I agree it gets a
bit pendantic - maybe I'll poke around on the Web and find out what common
practice is. Things like The Gimp should have attracted Adobe's attention
by now ;-) so I'll see how they label Postscript.
> > [2] Notwithstanding the very dated presentation, but that's LaTeX's
> > fault.
>
> I would prefer the term "classic" ;)
Which "very dated presentation"? As is the writing, the page formatting,
the Word attack ???
Mike
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