option click, control click, etc

[Ian Wood]

On 25 Jun 2009, at 09:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Just to throw a spanner in the works; I have 4 Macintosh computer  
> keyboards (USB) and not a single one has an 'Option' key; where  
> Apple used to have an 'Option' key there are 'Alt' keys - presumably  
> to be more in sync with the PC world: I suppose their documentation  
> (like somebody else's, cough, cough, cough) is lagging behind  
> somewhat.  Therefore it might be better to use 'Alt' rather than  
> 'Option' in any documentation you are writing.

I thought that was a US/UK thing? My UK layout Mac keyboards all have  
'alt' on the key, while all the photos on apple.com have 'option' (and  
sometimes a small 'alt' as well).

For thoroughness, my approach is to always write 'Option/Alt' in any  
modifier combination that uses the option key - due to memories of  
learning Photoshop from a book tutorial many years ago and trying to  
work out what 'option-click to choose a source location' meant...

Ian