Bug 108379 - WIKIHELP: use > or ▸in menu locations, not dash
Summary: WIKIHELP: use > or ▸in menu locations, not dash
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2017-06-06 22:02 UTC by skierpage
Modified: 2017-12-10 13:33 UTC (History)
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Description skierpage 2017-06-06 22:02:27 UTC 
Help documentation, like https://help.libreoffice.org/Chart/Format_Selection and https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Comparing_Versions_of_a_Document , uses a dash in menu locations, e.g. '''Edit - Track Changes - Record Changes'''.

This is semantically wrong. The words are not alternatives, they are a path through the menu hierarchy. Most other projects use an arrow, triangle, or greater-than sign, thus '''Edit > Track Changes > Record Changes'''.

The LO release notes https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3 use a triangle glyph, e.g. Format ▸ Merge cells ▸ Merge cells, generated by the breadcrumb template {{bc|Format|Merge cells|Merge cells}}.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2017-06-10 18:30:59 UTC 
Yep, even TDF wiki uses ▸ with a special markup for menus.
Comment 2 Olivier Hallot 2017-12-10 13:33:18 UTC 
The change must be applied to the helpconent2/ XML files, because the wiki help is build after the XML help files.

However a cosmetic change like this applied to 1000's of pages will affect all 10's of translations.

Setting Wontfix.