Well said, Warren! And the same can be said for bolding and
underlining. I've been working on some documents in which many items
are both bolded and underlined, which is absolutely silly. Remember,
many things done by desktop publishers are done because they can be,
not because they should be. One of the braille transcriber's jobs is
to figure out which "eye candy" is important and remove the
non-essential clutter.
Steve
On Thursday 12/1/05 08:36 Warren Figueiredo wrote:
Catherine said "The purpose of bullets is never decorative. The purpose is to highlight something that the document is emphasizing."
I disagree. Before the advent of desktop publishing, many published or typed materials relied on a change of margin and indenting pattern to signal such lists. And that distinction carries over into today's highly bulleted stuff.
Now bulleted lists are everywhere and "decorative" bullets abound. Just the other day I saw a cookbook that bulleted every ingredient in the entire cookbook with a cute little groceries icon. It was just as decorative as it could be and provided no distinction whatsoever to the lists of ingredients. What really made the distinction was the contrasting indention pattern. The recipes used indented paragraphs. The ingredients used an outdented format. If all the bullets were removed no distinction would have been lost.
They don't call it "eye candy" for nothing.
Warren
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