Subject: Re: "Unprintable characters" in dialog box
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 14:00:39 CDT
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:
> wjc> I propose we change this to something more meaningful. Perhaps
> wjc> "Invisible layout marks" or "Invisible formating marks".
>
> sam> I believe that the standard name for these is "nonprinting
> sam> characters", but I may be wrong.
>
> I don't know about any standard for this, but MSWord from Office2000
> (via Tools->Options) calls them "Formatting marks". Perhaps MS called
> it something else in earlier versions. That seems reasonably clear,
> whereas to my mind "nonprinting characters" or "unprintable
> characters" seems unclear. In this day and age, I am personally more
> inclined to take the word "print" more literally as indicating
> something that only applies when you send something to the printer.
> (It would make less difference when/if there is a really simple sort of
> context-sensitive help, akin to Win32's "?" window decoration.)
I thought that was the idea. ??
These characters are displayed on screen (if you want) but they do not
print. Hence 'non-printing'. However, I certainly agree that this name
is not particularily user-friendly.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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