"Third party" software - a clear term?

[Shaun McCance]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 09:55 -0400, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> As a minor aside, I noticed that the documentation tells the user to: 
> "Open System ▸ Administration ▸ Software Sources and select Third Party 
> Software".
> 
> However, the actual text on the tab the user would select has a hyphen, 
> as in: "Third-Party Software". This slight difference may be an 
> unavoidable artifact of docbook, but one result of it is that the common 
> convention that bold text is used to refer literally to UI items is 
> slightly undermined.

I don't think DocBook has any limitations that prevent you
from putting proper hyphenation in compound adjectives.

"Third-party software" means software from a third party.

"Third party software" means the third piece of software
for parties, or something.

--
Shaun