Comments on: The Tool Bar and Grill http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/the-tool-bar-and-grill/ on technical writing, content strategy, information design, and all the whitespace in between Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Plutchok http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/the-tool-bar-and-grill/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Jonathan Plutchok Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:39:00 +0000 http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/the-tool-bar-and-grill/#comment-3 Thanks very much for your compliments and for recommending my blog, David. (Sorry it took me so long to comment.) I will be delighted if it helps a few more people get through their computing days a bit easier. <br/><br/>As for your grammatical question, I decided on "tool bar" as two words when writing the Amdocs corporate style guide, because I didn't want to fall into a morass of "menubar," "statusbar," etc. In general, I curmudgeonly oppose the popular trend of smashing two words together into one. Maybe that's a holder from my columnist days when I was paid by the word?<br/><br/>--Jonathan Plutchok Thanks very much for your compliments and for recommending my blog, David. (Sorry it took me so long to comment.) I will be delighted if it helps a few more people get through their computing days a bit easier.

As for your grammatical question, I decided on “tool bar” as two words when writing the Amdocs corporate style guide, because I didn’t want to fall into a morass of “menubar,” “statusbar,” etc. In general, I curmudgeonly oppose the popular trend of smashing two words together into one. Maybe that’s a holder from my columnist days when I was paid by the word?

–Jonathan Plutchok

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