Hi all, Le 28/01/2015 01:42, Jean Weber a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:39 AM, jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Back when Sun ran OpenOffice.org there was a (semi-)official manual of >> style for the project. >> >> * Is that manual of style still adhered to? > > I don't know, but Sophie may know. We never really used it for the > user guides, but I believe it was used for writing Help.
The stylistic guide was a Sun guide for translating Sun products. I still have the one from 2006 in French. But it is copyrighted by Sun. > >> * What is/was it called? >> * Where can it be obtained from? > > Here is one I remember. > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide > >> >> I am not referring to the style manual within the documentation template >> that Jean constructed/maintains. > > There is also a short (and somewhat out of date) writing style guide > for LO user guides. It is Chapter 5 in the Contributors Guide. See > here: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#Contributors_Guide > > In Docs, we mainly referred to the relevant sections of _Read Me > First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry_ by Sun Technical > Publications. I realise that isn't what you're looking for, but I > mention for completeness regarding semi-official manuals of style. Thanks for the information Jean. I think Gnome HIG is the one to use for us when writing UI or help files. Cheers Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
