Hi I prefer "dialogue-box" with a hyphen in the middle like that. Ubuntu documentation team have decided that "dialogue box" is too technical and are replacing it with "window" [deep sigh][sulks]. So now their official documentation wont make any sense to anyone
I'm not sure that being consistent is so important. I think "dialogue" (or the american "dialog") is only slightly ambiguous & adding "-box" only adds a little more clarity. As long as we don't go the Ubuntu way then we should be ok. Just my thoughts Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Sophie Gautier <gautier.sop...@gmail.com> To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 10 January, 2011 5:52:32 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Dialog or dialog box? Hi Hal, On 10/01/2011 04:43, Hal Parker wrote: > Are we using the term "dialog" or "dialog box"? The OOo books vary in usage: > Getting Started and Calc (and maybe Draw; I didn't check) use "dialog" while > the Writer Guide uses "dialog box". > > The LibreOffice options use the term "dialog" for some of the options. I > haven't checked the help, but I think it also uses "dialog". > > If we settle on "dialog", I will amend the Writer Guide chapters as I go > through them doing other things. > > FWIW, I personally prefer "dialog" but the important thing is to be > consistent, when we can. I suspect other variations in terminology in both > the program and the user guides, left over from OOo. If you want to stay consistent with the help files content, then you should use [dialog] because this is what is used all over there. May be we should find a way for you to use our translation memory or glossaries so you get the same words for the UI, the Help and your documentation? This is what we try to achieve with our translation tools. Or just let you research for the terms on Pootle would be enough, I don't know? Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
