On 19-02-11 12:34, Marc Paré wrote: > Some of us on the marketing and USmarketing teams are having a > discussion on usage and I thought that perhaps someone on the > documentation team could help us. > > 1. Use of "Euro". It was pointed out that the European Community had > issued its verdict saying that "Euro" should not be pluralized (i.e. > "Euros") in any situation. So, should we then standardize our use of > "Euro" to this for all documentation, website and marketing materials? > > There was also a discussion, with no decision about the treatment of > the word "Euro". Would we write: 50 000 euro or 50 000 Euro or should > we rather write Euro 50 000 or euro 50 000 or EU50 000 ? > > 2. The setting of the the thousand separator and the decimal point. > There seems to be multiple acceptable usages. For example all of the > following seem to be correct: > > 50 000.05 > 50,000.05 > 50.000,05 > 50 000.05 > 50.000,05 > > Is there an already "agreed to" use of the thousand separator and > decimal point for the LibreOffice documentation team? > > We could coordinate this throughout our documentation, website and > marketing teams. > > References: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Decimal_separator > (this is Wikipedia's style manual -- do we have a LibreOffice style > manual that the documentation team follows?) > > Cheers > > Marc > > The ' European Commission <http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm>'-website has an article about it http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/symbol/index_en.htm
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