Re: GNOME Documentation Style Guide

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:10:43PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:38:16PM +0100 or thereabouts, Eugene O'Connor wrote:
> > There are three reasons why we chose to call this key Return rather than
> > Enter.
> > 
> > First, we do not want to use the term Enter key for both the Return key
> > and the Enter key as in may cases these keys do not do the same thing.
> > For example, in gedit I cannot add a new line by pressing Enter. In
> > GNOME Calculator, I cannot calculate a sum by pressing Return.
> 
> I vote we don't use the names at all, use DocBook and its keysym, 
> keycode and keycap tags, have a nifty "what does this key look like?"
> druid people can answer, and then have the stylesheet draw little 
> pictures of the key every time it's needed.
> 
> So there :) 
> 
> (Ye gods, I wish we could, actually: this would be so cute :))

Even if you *can* do that, it won't help at the console. You'll still
need `enter' or `return' as an alt tag.

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