Hello All If no objection rises, I'll merge the suggestions in the wiki page.
Kind regards Olivier Em 27/03/2020 07:28, Peter Schofield escreveu: > 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 > > -- Olivier Hallot LibreOffice Documentation Coordinator Comunidade LibreOffice Rio de Janeiro - Brasil - Local Time: UTC-03:00 http://tdf.io/joinus -- 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
