On 17/10/2014 12:50, Giuliano Colla wrote: > > Il 17/10/2014 12:21, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto: >> On 17/10/2014 12:16, Mattias Gaertner wrote: >>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:58:21 +0200 >>> Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Googling gives lot of pages saying that cannot is more formal than >>> can't. And MS Word prefers cannot over can not. >>> >>> This means: It depends on the target audience of your application. >> Yes, formal versus informal is part of it. Another part is >> comprehension, e.g. >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb226825%28v=vs.85%29.aspx >> >> "Avoid contractions in technical messages. They can slow down >> comprehension." >> > > In my experience Microsoft should be taken as a guideline of what *not* > to do. > The inventors of the well known dialog: Abort, Retry, Ignore should not > have voice on what is user friendly and what's not. I disagree. The link I posted shows sensible advice.
If you have better references, as I said, I'm very interested! -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
