It is a local style agreement of course. "Open source" almost always works. In some English language practice, hyphenation is sometimes used when the term is placed as a single adjective, as in "formerly open-source software." Confusion is unlikely in the "open source" case, and the OSI makes no use of it.
For documentation, it would be valuable to create a style guide for what is desired for consistency. - Dennis Some writers, such as myself, use that hyphenation systematically. That might (or might not be) an aid to translators. Another case I find for hyphenation is in making gerunds as in "The bean counters were busily bean-counting. Executives prefer estimation to actually counting beans." -----Original Message----- From: Marc Paré [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 07:49 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ? Le 05/03/13 10:26 AM, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : > Marc Paré schrieb: >> Do we use "open-source" or "open source" or "opensource" ? > > > Hi, > > <http://opensource.org/> might be a reliable reference, they write "open > source" > > CU > > Rainer Bielefeld > Thanks, but I am just trying to coordinate our marketing spelling with the docs team spelling. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré [email protected] http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
