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For issues that aren’t covered in the Apple Publications Style Guide, Apple recommends three other
works: The American Heritage Dictionary,The Chicago Manual of Style, and Words Into Type. When these
books give conflicting rules, The Chicago Manual of Style takes precedence for questions of usage and
The American Heritage Dictionary for questions of spelling.
The rest of this section discusses specific details of how to present your text in a style that integrates
properly with the Aqua user interface.
Inserting Spaces Between Sentences
If any part of your application's user interface displays two or more sentences in a paragraph, be sure
to insert only a single space between the ending punctuation of one sentence and the first word of
the next sentence.
Although much of the text in an application's user interface is in the form of labels and short phrases,
application help, alerts, and dialogs often contain longer blocks of text. You should examine these
blocks of text to make sure that extra spaces do not appear between sentences.
Using the Ellipsis Character
An ellipsis character (…) can imply that there is more text than there is room to display or that a
command (such as Open...) requires additional information before it can be performed. If, for example,
the name of an item is too long to fit in a menu or list box, you should insert an ellipsis character in
the middle of the name, preserving the beginning and the end of the name. This ensures that the parts
of the name that are most likely to be unique are still visible.
An ellipsis character after a menu item or button label indicates to the user that additional information
is required to complete a command. You should use an ellipsis character in the following cases:
■ An action that requires further user input to complete or presents an alert allowing the user to
cancel the action. Examples include Find, Go To, Open, Page Setup, and Print.
■ An action that opens a settings window. The main function of settings windows is to allow the
user to change some aspect of the application, not the document content. Examples include Set
Title, Preferences, and Options.
Don’t use an ellipsis character in the following cases:
■ An action that requires no further user input to complete and does not present an alert. Often the
item to be acted upon is already selected. Examples include New, Cut, Bold, and Quit.
■ An action that opens an informational, accessory, or tool window. These windows can be
implemented as either utility windows (as in the case of a color palette) or modeless windows.
These windows provide tools that help create or manage the content in the main window and
are frequently left open to assist in accomplishing the task of the main window. Examples include
Get Info, Show Tools, and About This Application.
Be sure to create the ellipsis character using the key combination Option-; (Option-semicolon). This
ensures that an assistive application can provide the correct interpretation of the character to a disabled
user. If you use 3 period characters to simulate an ellipsis, many assistive applications will be unable
to make sense of them.
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines 2006
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