Re: Style guide feedback

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:55:55AM -0500 or thereabouts, Trevor Curtis wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:47:03AM -0800, Darin Adler offered:
> > I guess I'm just used to "menu bar" because that's the style we used at
> > Apple, back before there were menu bars on most other computers. [snip]
> 
> ispell says this:
> 
> menubar
> & menubar 33 0: menu bar, menu-bar, (then other totally unrelated
> words)...
> 
> It does look weird to me, but I'm sure I look wierd to you... so it all
> works out in the end. :)
> 
> What do the rest of ya think?

I pondered suggesting hyphens, then decided not to because these
days on the net they seem very much to be a British English thing.
I have noticed they are rare in American English. If they look
weird to you, perhaps they're rare in Canadian English too :)

Also, I'm not at all clear that a hyphen is "correct" here. It's
just something I would use, and my grammar is very far from 
perfect. I can manage who/whom and shall/will (both of which
are completely irrelevant today!) but my use of hyphens is 
entirely guesswork :) 

I think consistency is probably what we need here. If we get it
wrong, someone can always do a massive sed job later. I have
no preferences on which gets used. 

Telsa