On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:14, Alan Horkan wrote: > The use of a contraction goes against the Documentation Style Guide (which > I went to great lengths to read).
I know, I was being somewhat mischievous :) But having said that, both Mac and Windows increasingly use contractions in fairly obvious places, and both of those desktops are translated into dozens of languages in what is presumably a straightforward enough fashion that they haven't felt the need to un-contract the English version. When I was at school at uni, we were always told never to use contractions in technical reports either, but nowadays most institutions positively encourage you to use less fussy language in reports to make them more readable... all keeps style guide writers in a job I suppose :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
