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Required but not excessive use of characters such as ® and ™ #24

Closed grahamperrin closed 7 years ago

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

Enhancement request

Less aggressive use of the characters at https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html and elsewhere.

Expected exceptions

https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html where (I guess) the lists of contents draw from titles, some of which properly include a special character.

The Copyright & Trademarks section only of the preface to the guide.

Rationale

It looks peculiar. I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.

I get it, it's a registered trademark :-)

The rrrrrepetition is probably quietly viewed as peculiar or over-the-top by other people, too …

Reference

For example, the United States Postal Service (USPS) Guidelines to Proper Trademark Use version 1 (2008-03-25) page 2, with added emphasis:

PROPER USE OF TRADEMARKS

… On Web pages and slide presentations, registered trademark and trademark symbols should be noted on the first occurrence on every page registrations and trademarks appear.

Thanks :+1:

Mrt134 commented 7 years ago

The use of registered trademark symbols is being followed according to stipulations laid down by iX Systems/its lawyers. I've attempted to make them smaller/less distracting, but I'm not allowed to remove them altogether.

grahamperrin commented 7 years ago

Fair enough, fair enough. fair enough :-)

Thanks for the explanation, I just never saw any other organisation use the symbols so profusely. (The once-per-page, first occurrence convention seems more normal.)