Re: Capitalization - current trends?

[Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- marvin -dot- eng -dot- sun -dot- com>]

In article ORG -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com, margulis -at- fiam -dot- net (Dick Margulis) writes:
>
> On the UI itself, we like to downstyle
>labels. So we might have a label that says, "Project short name"; but we
>might have a sentence in a training guide or Help that says, "the
>Project Short Name field accepts up to twelve characters." That's a
>lousy example, because we would obviously rewrite it to avoid the issue;
>but sometimes we do have to refer to things this way.
>
 
Well, that's fine unless you have a competing rule that 
says that items in the GUI have to be referenced exactly 
as they appear on the screen to avoid reader confusion :->

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