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From: hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Undecipherable Icons (was Re: Xerox
Message-ID: <18000018@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 89 01:38:31 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!hirchert    Dec 28 11:44:00 1989


fiddler%concerti@Sun.COM writes
>In article <18038@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Danno) writes:
>> 
>> Ooo ooo!  Can I make a nomination in the "undecipherable icons" category??
>> 
>> How about some of the icons Microsoft used for the keyboard equivalents of
>> menu commands?  "Option" is defined as split-level lines? Huh?  I still
>> haven't figured out one of them: the key-equivalent of "Plain for style" is
>> command-shift-<bracket that fell over>.  Where is this key?? (I do have the
>> extended keyboard, if some of you are not seeing this displayed as an
>> equivalent.)
>
>Look at your "6" key.  The character above it is called a caret.

That's true, but the character that looks like a "bracket that fell over" is
a fairly commonly used explicit graphic for the space character, and the key
equivalent for "Plain for style is command-shift-space.  (Given that Word marks
spaces with a dot smaller than a period when editing text, it is interesting
that they didn't follow the same convention when displaying command key
equivalents.)

Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications