Hello Ilmari The Style Guide does not cover all my suggestions, mainly use of apostrophe and word contractions. These two items do cause problems when translating English. My ideas about paragraphs and sentences are similar to the Style Guide, but I have put a number in the requirement. This does help if writers follow the suggestion. Regards Peter Schofield [email protected]
> On 27 Mar 2020, at 10:11, Ilmari Lauhakangas > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter Schofield kirjoitti 27.3.2020 klo 10.23: >> After going through the meeting notes (which I could not attend), I though >> that it maybe a good idea to air my views about writing standards. >> The following ideas come from my experience in working within Simplified >> English rules when I worked for Airbus and Ericcson. >> 1. Paragraphs no more the six sentences long. >> 2. Sentences should only contain a maximum of 20 words, with the occasional >> sentence allowed to be 25 words. >> 3. Never use the possessive apostrophe (for example Peter’s). Rewrite the >> sentence to remove the need for a possessive apostrophe. >> 4. Never use contractions of words (for example: don’t becomes do not; won’t >> becomes will not, and so on) >> 5. Never use Latin abbreviations (for example: etc becomes and so on; e.g. >> becomes for example; i.e. becomes that is). >> There are many more rules, but the above basic rules are a good start. They >> are designed to make English text easier to translate into other languages >> and that is why it is called Simplified English. >> Please let me know your opinion. > > There is a style guide in the wiki: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DocumentationTeamInfo/StyleGuide > > Ilmari > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
