Hi Marc,
On 20/02/2011 06:37, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2011-02-19 22:05, David Nelson a écrit :
Hi, :-)
Yes, we had the discussion about what variety of Engish to use a while
back. The consensus at the time was US spelling and terminology.
IMHO, one of the biggest aids to comprehensibility is careful and
thoughtful punctation.
But I also try not to be lazy in my English and to be careful about
relative pronouns [1] and subordinating conjunctions [2].
One good idea, as suggested by Barbara or Hal, is to build-up a
separate and brief glossary of terminology explaining our conventions.
It could be useful to end users but it would especially be an aid for
translators.
As I mentioned previously, "activate" and "deactivate" are terms I use
a lot, but I do tend to vary my vocabulary so that the style isn't too
stilted and wooden. I generally attribute two ha'porth of common sense
to the reader.
My 2 cents...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun
[2] http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000377.htm
David Nelson
Hi David et al:
This is somewhat what I was wondering today. I thought that it would be
useful if instead there were a "LibreOffice Style Manual" that we could
all share between documentation, website, design and marketing. Such an
example is the Google style manual pages[1]. All of the different NL
groups could develop their own and these would be a point of reference
for users and members when in search of usage, formatting or styling
questions.
The l10n teams have already style guides, glossaries, terminology and
TMX files. I can send you the French ones if you like (l10nFR section is
not up so not available for LO currently, only for OOo).
They are available to the Documentation and Marketing teams but not used
from what I've seen in the FR community, mostly because this is all
oriented for localization when they create their own material.
There is also the fact that the more you bind people to rules or
constraints, the less they are going to participate. The most important
is the respect of the UI labels, if the rest is different it's not very
important. Several communities have a lot of documentations,
developed/written in very different ways and users seems to find what
they need with that any way.
Kind regards
Sophie
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