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Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:02 pm
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Myth says...



When writing about keyboard/controller buttons would you have to capitalise the word?

Eg:

Tapping the ‘Send’ button [...] Aethel pressed ‘Forward’.


Or does it not matter?
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:17 pm
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Via says...



Haha, that's a good question. I think I would capitalize it, because all the word buttons on a keyboard are capitalized and 'Send' is the buttons name--proper name? I don't know. I just think it makes sense to capitalize :D
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Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:58 pm
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Poor Imp says...



Hello Myth -


I've seen it written both ways, in more than one book. But I rather think capitalisation would be more correct; it also will make it stand out, as a key, not merely another word in the sentence. ^_^



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Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:48 pm
Meep says...



I've never used keyboard functions in a story-story, but when I've seen them used in technical manuals (like a how-to guide for a calculator), the key in question is written [in brackets], so "the shift key" is written as [shift].

However, a send button and forward button aren't normally keys on a keyboard ... I would go with lowercase, because they aren't proper nouns, although now that I think about it, the words on the buttons are capitalized ... so I was really no help what-so-ever.

edit: wait, now that I think about it, the keys in [brackets] are usually capitalized, so I would go with capitalizing them, even if they aren't in [brackets].
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Prosithion says...



I think it really doesn't matter. Use whatever is easiest.

I don't think that anyone is going to lookt hat closely.
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