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From: alexr@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder 7.0 suggestion
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Date: 9 Jul 90 17:30:29 GMT
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In article <956.2695f9be@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence 
D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> I like the "Apple menu folder" idea. Just one suggestion: do the names
> of aliases in the menu have to be in italics? It makes sense to italicise
> the names of the actual file icons, but is this information relevant
> in the menu?

I brought this up, once upon a time. It turns out to be an issue of 
consistancy. Now that I have thought about it a bit, I agree with it.

If you really dislike it, you could patch the menu definition to not 
display italics in the Apple Menu.

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