My position on the contraction issue is clear. Apostrophe's are a bad idea. It does'nt matter where. They just are'nt helpful to reader's. Or even users'.
Pat Calum Benson wrote: > 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. > -- *************************************** Patrick Costello, JDS Documentation Phone: 01 819 9077 [ext 19077] *************************************** _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
