Hello Leo I have plenty of tips I could share, but those were the easiest ones to put in a suggestion. The Simplified English guide I have used is the ASD-STE100 and that is a tome that takes ages to get through and digest. Too big to incorporate into a LibreOffice Style Guide. I need some spare time to edit and only use the good bits for a suggestion. I think later in the year when all the other jobs have been done whilst we are in lockdown Regards Peter Schofield [email protected]
> On 27 Mar 2020, at 11:24, Leo Moons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Peter, > > Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas and I am pretty sure we can use these > ideas also in other languages. Maybe you have more tips you can share? > > Many thanks > Best regards > > Leo Moons > LibreOffice/nl > > > Op 27/03/2020 om 09:23 schreef Peter Schofield: >> 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. >> >> Regards >> Peter Schofield >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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
