Techyle

Techyle  is a specification for the meaning of names of format styles.

Character Styles

Every word with more than one letter written in only-uppercase letters within a natural-language text is considered to be an acronym. Therefore, there is no special markup for acronyms.

uac

Output of a computer, usually within a text console interface. See the style »uau«.
Example The system will respond with »READY.«
Mnemonic “As Computer output”

uad

An name of a system or good. Not of a person.
Example Once Excel  has been started, one might use it.
Mnemonic “As Denomination”

uae

An emphasis. To be set in italics if possible.
Example This should never  be done.
Mnemonic “As Emphasis”

uaf

Text in another language than the main text. But use the style »udl« for Latin text, the style »ude« for English text within a body of another language, the style »udg« for German text and the style »udh« for French text..
Example He wrote “é um pouco sozinho ”.
Mnemonic “As Foreign”

uag

Text to be understood as a description rather than literally.
Example One should insert lastname  in this field. (I.e., do not insert the literal text »lastname«, but the value/meaning of the variable »lastname«.)
Mnemonic “As Generic”

uai

Text to introduce a paragraph.
Example (This was used to format the word “Example” on the left.)
Mnemonic “As Intro”

uaj

Text of a formal language to introduce a paragraph. Intended to be a combination of the meaning of the style »uai« and the style »uat«.
Mnemonic “As Jet another kind of intro”

ual

A label of a key or simulated button of a GUI.
Example Press E.
Mnemonic “As Label”

uam

A label of a screen element of a GUI, such as a menu name or menu entry.
Example Select »Save«.
Mnemonic “As Menu Entry”

uan

A term appearing here for the first time in this text.
Example This is called a style.
Mnemonic “As New”

uar

Highlight text. This should be rendered with boldface. It should be used rarely for presentational purposes.
Example example
Mnemonic “As Really visible”

uas

The name of a person.
Example This was invented by Peter Miller.
Mnemonic “As Somebody”

uat

Text of a formal language. This is intended to be rendered in a monospaced font, where every glyph can be recognized unambiguously even without context. So the letter "l" should be different from the digit "1" and the letter "O" different from the digit "0".
Example The function »factorial« could be used here.
Mnemonic “As Typewriter text”

uau

User input. Usually, for texts in formal languages, the style »uat« is preferred. The style »uau« is intended to be used in combination with »uac« to format dialogues between a system and a user.
Example One should enter »dir« to list the files.
Mnemonic “As User input”

ude

English text within a body of another language.
Example Diese sogenannten “streets ” sind dort ganz normal.
Mnemonic “English”

udg

German text or a special German symbol.
Example These are called „Vorverstärker“.
Mnemonic “German”

udh

French text.
Example These are called « immeuble ».
Mnemonic (none)

udi

Phonetic characters.
Example It is pronounced [ɪk 'sɛl].
Mnemonic “IPA-phonetics”

udl

Latin text.
Example This is a condition sine qua non.
Mnemonic (none.)

udm

In-line math.
Example It is written »f : A → B«.
Mnemonic “Math”

udo

An ISBN.
Example The ISBN of the book is »ISBN 0-201-61562-2«.
Mnemonic “bOOk”

udt

An ISO date and/or time.
Example It was written as of 2004-03-17T12:49:08.
Mnemonic “Time”