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David Chinell wondered <<Can anyone point me to information or studies or
discussions about special typographic treatment for menu commands and dialog
box names and the like?>>
Have a look at Karen Schriver's (1997) Dynamics in Document Design (Wiley).
Karen covers the whole issue of typography in some detail.
