Re: The -> arrows in the manual

[John Weiss]

On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:07:16AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> John> This is a mistake: you don't want to split the sequence of menus
> John> bound together by the "->".  Reason?  It breaks the connection
> John> between menu name and menu-item name.  Yes, it creates ugly
> 
> You can safely break after the arrow, for the same reason that you can
> break a compound word (can you in english?).

Not quite.  You don't break the compound word; you hyphenate it.  Then
again, you hyphenate non-compound words, too.  But the hyphen is
always there.  Breaking after the arrow, as I said, breaks the connection
between menu name and menu-item name.  You can't put in a hyphen after
the arrow to indicate continuation; that'd look goofy.

Oh, NOW I see what you're talking about, J.M.  The arrow "->" *is* the
hyphen!  I'd have to see how it looked in the manuals before giving it
the a-Okay, but it *seems* like it might work.

-- 
John Weiss