Hi Peter, all I merged your suggestions to the Style wiki page/chapter:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DocumentationTeamInfo/StyleGuide#Writing_style The 5th item was already mentioned (Latin abbreviations) Regards Olivier Em 27/03/2020 08:59, Peter Schofield escreveu: > 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 > > -- 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
