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Update Menu title in General_UI_Introduction #241

Closed ahangarha closed 5 months ago

ahangarha commented 9 months ago

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JoesCat commented 5 months ago

While looking at Installing Fontforge This change would seem to mix-up theming between GUI commands and command-line instructions. We should probably leave the quoted commands for command-line just to keep the theme consistent.

ahangarha commented 5 months ago

Okay. I will update the PR soon

ahangarha commented 5 months ago

I changed the format to be bold.

We need to define some rules for such things. There is not standard for it. Sometimes we bold them, sometime we use Italic and sometimes we leave it unstyled.

JoesCat commented 5 months ago

True, seems there is no standard to show GUI commands. We should surround your instructions with nbsp to avoid breaking the sequence depending on if it gets printed on Letter or A4 or a different sized page.

Do you think adding Italics helps? or surrounding the commands in a different colour scheme helps, or hinders the command?

I think the nbsp is of value since this could end-up being lengthy....but if it is too lengthy, it needs to be broken-up in the right locations. I spot a location that is probably a must... Window > New Metrics Window, or Metrics > New_nbsp_Metrics_nbsp_Window.

JoesCat commented 5 months ago

Including this for reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/kbd

maybe a bad idea: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/menu

ahangarha commented 5 months ago

I think the content should be as markdown as possible. Any further issue should be handled by the parser.

But since you have more experience here, you define the standard. But I think Italic is better than bold. I used bold here because it is used more than Italic.

Also the menu HTML tag is not meant for this purpose.

JoesCat commented 5 months ago

Italics makes sense.

But since you have more experience here, you define the standard. But I think Italic is better than bold. I used bold here because it is used more than Italic.

Only picked this up in June, and I have yet to read through the entire book ;-P

...will go with bold wrapped in italics here, and fix other references along the way...

JoesCat commented 5 months ago

I think it could probably use some colour :-/