I wonder what is the provenance of this keyboard (from a MacBook Pro)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Apple_Modifier_Keys.jpg

certainly 'gifted' with 'ALT' keys, and, a mucky COMMAND key!

Ian Wood wrote:

On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

Just to throw a spanner in the works; I have 4 Macintosh computer keyboards (USB) and not a single one has an 'Option' key; where Apple used to have an 'Option' key there are 'Alt' keys - presumably to be more in sync with the PC world: I suppose their documentation (like somebody else's, cough, cough, cough) is lagging behind somewhat. Therefore it might be better to use 'Alt' rather than 'Option' in any documentation you are writing.

I thought that was a US/UK thing? My UK layout Mac keyboards all have 'alt' on the key, while all the photos on apple.com have 'option' (and sometimes a small 'alt' as well).

For thoroughness, my approach is to always write 'Option/Alt' in any modifier combination that uses the option key - due to memories of learning Photoshop from a book tutorial many years ago and trying to work out what 'option-click to choose a source location' meant...

Ian
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