: Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 15:38
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?
NO NO NO! Wrong! (See my earlier note.)
Jean
On 06/03/2013, at 4:11, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi :)
I think we aim for using camel-case as in OpenSource to be consistent
Tom :)
From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com
To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 15:38
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell
A popular general-purpose American style guide--The Chicago Manual of
Style--would likely prefer using the hyphenated form when used as an
adjective (such as in general-purpose in this sentence). Otherwise, not.
Gary
On 3/5/2013 10:48 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 05/03/13 10:26 AM, Rainer
It is a local style agreement of course. Open source almost always works.
In some English language practice, hyphenation is sometimes used when the term
is placed as a single adjective, as in formerly open-source software.
Confusion is unlikely in the open source case, and the OSI makes no
We have a style guide (Chapter 5 of the Contributors' Guide) , and
open source (two words, no hyphen) is in it. (See the section titled
Commonly used words.)
Yes, I'm aware that the entire contributors' guide needs to be updated
and some bits of it expanded. That's next on my To Do list, after I
