> Many technical manuals are rendered useless by showing key caps
> instead of using key names. In these manuals you find instructions
> like "Press the [picture] key."
Perhaps the publishing industry can take a lesson from the Internet. The
Net through the use of HTML allows for the presentation of graphics if so
desired. Alternate text explaining the graphics are presented in place
of the images. Perhaps publishing software could include a similar
feature.
At time of writing, the author could incorporate both the "Press the
[picture] key" and "Press the ANY key" into the document. This would
make it very easy for the support both versions or the text. Full
digrams and images can be given similar descriptions. Such support would
be rediculously easy for desktop publishing software companies to include
in their products.
This is however still does not solve the problem of authors who do indeed
frivously spread images throughout their texts. It does offer a possible
solution for many types of documentation.
-- Dannie J Gregoire dannie@iglou.com
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