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Chapter 4 Terminology
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memory
expansion card
Lowercase in generic references
memory pages
Used in A/UX documentation. Use lowercase, and spell out page numbers if you give
them, to distinguish from display pages: zero page, page one.
menu command
Use command or menu command in user manuals; do not use menu option. A menu
command is in a menu, not on a menu; a menu contains commands. See also
command names.
menu titles
Note capitalization: Edit menu, File menu, and so on.
menu types
Note hyphenation: pop-up menu, pull-down menu, tear-off menu.
metasymbols
Refers to artificial terms that have meaning only in your manual and are to be
replaced by a value or symbol. In running text, use italic regular text font when
referring to a metasymbol, and spell out the metasymbol just as it would appear in a
syntax description. Use plain style when using the name of a metasymbol in ordinary
prose.
Correct: Replace volume-name with a name of up to 12 characters.
Correct: The volume name may have up to 12 characters.
Incorrect: The volume-name may have up to 12 characters.
mice
Do not use; use mouse devices.
micro disk,
micro diskette,
microfloppydisk
ette
Do not use; use disk.
mini (prefix)
Hyphenate before a word beginning with a vowel; close up before a word beginning
with a consonant.
mini-assembler, miniwindow, minicircular connector
miniwindow
Refers to a box appearing in some applications that has some but not all features of a
regular window. Do not use window.
minus sign
Not minus symbol. Use an en dash for a minus sign (except in code, where a hyphen
is used).
MIPS
Acronym for million instructions per second. Spell out on first occurrence. Do not
drop the s when you are referring to a single unit: one MIPS, not one MIP.
mode
Avoid in user manuals when referring to software (for example, when describing a
paint program, say, “When using the paintbrush,” not “When you are in paintbrush
mode.”) In technical documentation, when referring to software, you enter or leave a
mode; you don’t turn on or turn off a mode.
model
Do not use when you could use computer.
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