Uwe Stöhr wrote: > "If Use Old Style Figures is checked, the font uses old style (also known as > medieval or text) figures, i. e. figures with varying height that fit > nicely with lower letters." > > Note that (except of German, French, Spanish and Japanese users) our users > have to read the English manuals. I therefore tried to use an English as > simple as possible in the docs.
But yet it should be precise. > For me as non-native speaker the text > "figures with varying height" sounds that it is about figures. So as I > misunderstood it, others might too, so we need a better description here. > Do you have a proposal? > > What about this?: > "If Use Old Style Figures is checked, the font uses old style figures (also > known as medieval/old style numerals), i. e. the numerals (0 - 9) with > varying height that fit nicely with lower letters." "If 'Use Old Style Figures' is checked, old style figures (also known as medieval or text figures) are used (if the font provides them). Old style figures are numerals with ascenders and descenders, which makes them fit nicely with lower letters." German: "Wenn Sie die Option 'Mediävalziffern verwenden' auswählen, werden (sofern der Font dies unterstützt) Ziffern mit Ober- und Unterlängen (sog. Mediäval- oder Minuskelziffern) verwendet, die sich besonders gut in den Fließtext einfügen". > I can alternatively add a footnote pointing to the Wikipedia entry so that > the user see the result as image. Yes, why not. Jürgen
