On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 14:08 +0200, Frank Peters wrote: > When going through the Calc FAQ and looking at the other FAQs > I noticed inconsistencies regarding terminology and style which > are partly due to the fact that the Sun team uses a different style. > > I noticed that both oooauthors and docs.oo.o have a styleguide > available that touches on some of the issues but not all. One > issue, for example, is the way menu hierarchy is displayed: > OOo: entry > entry > entry > Sun: entry - entry - entry > The OOo version has the disadvantage of having to be encoded > when used in XML or HTML context which gives ugly-looking > entry > entry > entry > But I'd be fine with either one version as long as > we have consistency across all deliverables. > > Rather more problematic is that often different terms > are used to talk about the same thing which may create > confusion amongst the readers and makes localization harder. > > I haven't seen a glossary of terms that could be used by > both authors and translators defining the terms and what > they mean. > One example here is, that what Sun writers call the "main menu" > is sometimes called "main menu" or "main menu bar" or > "pull-down menu". > > Should we start to compile and agree a glossary > of terms and work on a style update? Ideally, this > would include oooauthors as well to have the docs > being stylistically compatible. > > Opinions? > > Frank
I have the start of one that I will put in Docs and Files. This is one I made for myself and is incomplete for what we need but it should be a start. I have used the doc project template so it could be published. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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