We have a style guide (Chapter 5 of the Contributors' Guide) , and "open source" (two words, no hyphen) is in it. (See the section titled "Commonly used words".)
Yes, I'm aware that the entire contributors' guide needs to be updated and some bits of it expanded. That's next on my To Do list, after I finish some other work. --Jean On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
