atw: Re: Preferred font for coporate staff manuals
- From: "Geoffrey Marnell" <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:23:57 +1100
Jill, that is a puzzling statement. You say you "converted from Frame to
Word simply to use Calibri". Calibri is available as a font in my
common-or-garden version of FrameMaker. Fonts are rarely
application-specific these days. Am I missing something?
Cheers
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W: <http://www.abelard.com.au/> www.abelard.com.au
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jill Nicholson
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:08 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Preferred font for coporate staff manuals
Hi Naomi and all
I changed from Frame to Word simply to use Calibri. I have used it in all my
new manuals and I think they look stunning. My previous font was Garamond
and it now looks rather dowdy.
Although Calibri is officially sans serif it has some serif aspects and has
softer letters than other sans serifs such as Arial.
Unfortunately there are still companies, and particularly Govt, that use old
fonts. However, none as bad as when I worked for a Govt dept and had to buy
a font to enable me to do the manual. The font was obscure and not really a
good look.
I believe companies need to update their templates a lot more often than
they do.
This time round Microsoft should be happy I am using their product for their
training manuals.
Sorry I missed the conference and seeing you all but I was in England at a
wedding.
Jill
Jill Nicholson
N&H Communications
2 Park Ave
Roseville
NSW 2069
jpnicho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.nhcommunications.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Gelb" < <mailto:Janice.Gelb@xxxxxxx> Janice.Gelb@xxxxxxx>
To: < <mailto:austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:56 PM
Subject: atw: Re: Preferred font for coporate staff manuals
> On 12/11/09 02:14 PM, Naomi Grant wrote:
>>
>> I'm editing and formatting a staff manual for a real estate company.
>>
>> The staff manual includes a lot of dialogue (in the form of role-play)
>> which I have italicised.
>>
>> Do any of you have a preferred font which works particularly well when
>> italicised?
>>
>
> I'm afraid I don't. I do have a suggestion, though: if the
> dialogue consists of several back-and-forth lines in a row,
> you might want to consider using block indentation rather
> than italics. Italics are not easy to read and are generally
> intended for emphasis. If you use too much of them, they
> lose their effectiveness.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -- Janice
>
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