Hello Olivier Definitely no objections from me. Hopefully, we will then get a standard English appearing across all the guides.
Regards Peter Schofield [email protected] > On 27 Mar 2020, at 12:32, Olivier Hallot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 -- 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
