[libreoffice-documentation] Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Some of us on the marketing and USmarketing teams are having a discussion on usage and I thought that perhaps someone on the documentation team could help us. 1. Use of Euro. It was pointed out that the European Community had issued its verdict saying that Euro should not be pluralized (i.e.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Luuk
On 19-02-11 12:34, Marc Paré wrote: Some of us on the marketing and USmarketing teams are having a discussion on usage and I thought that perhaps someone on the documentation team could help us. 1. Use of Euro. It was pointed out that the European Community had issued its verdict saying that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 19/02/2011 12:34, Marc Paré a écrit : Some of us on the marketing and USmarketing teams are having a discussion on usage and I thought that perhaps someone on the documentation team could help us. 1. Use of Euro. It was pointed out that the European Community had issued its verdict saying

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-19 06:45, Luuk a écrit : The ' European Commissionhttp://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm'-website has an article about it http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/symbol/index_en.htm Thanks. So, judging by this page:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-19 06:47, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : 2. The setting of the the thousand separator and the decimal point. There seems to be multiple acceptable usages. For example all of the following seem to be correct: 50 000.05 50,000.05 EN 50.000,05 FR 50 000.05 50.000,05 FR

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Luuk
On 19-02-11 13:00, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-02-19 06:47, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : 2. The setting of the the thousand separator and the decimal point. There seems to be multiple acceptable usages. For example all of the following seem to be correct: 50 000.05 50,000.05 EN

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Marc On 19/02/2011 15:00, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-02-19 06:47, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : 2. The setting of the the thousand separator and the decimal point. There seems to be multiple acceptable usages. For example all of the following seem to be correct: 50 000.05 50,000.05

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Luuk, On 19/02/2011 15:14, Luuk wrote: On 19-02-11 13:00, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-02-19 06:47, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : 2. The setting of the the thousand separator and the decimal point. There seems to be multiple acceptable usages. For example all of the following seem to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Sophie: Le 2011-02-19 07:14, Sophie Gautier a écrit : The place of the punctuation in numbers depends on the countries and the system used, so you won't have a standard here. There is countries using arabic numerals with decimal point, other using arabic numerals with decimal coma and some

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Marc, On 19/02/2011 15:25, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Sophie: Le 2011-02-19 07:14, Sophie Gautier a écrit : The place of the punctuation in numbers depends on the countries and the system used, so you won't have a standard here. There is countries using arabic numerals with decimal point, other

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-19 06:34, Marc Paré a écrit : Some of us on the marketing and USmarketing teams are having a discussion on usage and I thought that perhaps someone on the documentation team could help us. 1. Use of Euro. It was pointed out that the European Community had issued its verdict saying

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/02/11 00:33, Ian Leyton a écrit : Hi, Just to cause the team more issues. LibO 3.3.1 has some different icons. The new LibO set. Yes, but on Mac they were present in RC1 and have now reverted back to the old ones in RC2. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/02/11 16:50, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, i think the general case for English speaking users and perhaps 'most' of Europe is to use a comma , as separator for thousands, millions etc and a full stop . as a decimal point. So, examples would be 50, 000, 000.05 or far more

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Ahah, thanks. I looked further down the page and saw the blue covered all of the main English speaking countries as well as India, part of China and possibly Japan but none of the rest of Europe except England. Regards from Tom :) From: Alexander

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: selecting is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/17/2011 10:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: What terms does the LibreOffice Help use? I thought that was our main terminology selection criterion. Hal The things we're discussing here are, I think, too context-sensitive to be readily searchable. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Record macro not available?

2011-02-19 Thread JDługosz
I noticed that mentioned under Experimental. So, what have I been using in OOo all these years? To type a character that's not on my laptop keyboard, having no clue how to write such a macro from scratch, I recorded the typing of some ordinary character, then edited it to paste in the char or

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/19/2011 4:43 PM, JDługosz wrote: I should point out that it doesn't have to be reviewed by one person or all at once. Anyone can flip through some of a chapter and double-check and accept all the typo fixes and formatting fixes, like stray letters that have been set as Times New Roman and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:43 AM, JDługosz d6474gh...@snkmail.com wrote: I should point out that it doesn't have to be reviewed by one person or all at once. Anyone can flip through some of a chapter and double-check and accept all the typo fixes and formatting fixes, like stray letters that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Record macro not available?

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:36 AM, JDługosz d6474gh...@snkmail.com wrote: I noticed that mentioned under Experimental. So, what have I been using in OOo all these years? The Record Macro feature was and still is a normal feature in OOo, which AFAIK doesn't have an experimental subset. This

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-19 17:25, JDługosz a écrit : Note that there are better characters than a plain space for separating groups of digits! Use figure space (U+2007) to make columns line up. 123456 vs 123456 12 456 vs 12 456 123 56 vs 123 45 Use punctuation space (U+2008) normally when using a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Record macro not available?

2011-02-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) The macro recording feature was recently reclassified as an experimental feature because the devs considered it to be buggy, and felt that it wasn't good to present it as a finished and stable functionality for the moment. Personally, I use it frequently and haven't had any problems with

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) My 2 cents would be to leave comments in the docs on Alfresco until they *really* are obsolete, and to always work with changes tracking on. Then, before we publish something on the wiki, we would clean up that version only beforehand, leaving the instance on Alfresco with all the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: selecting is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Yes, we had the discussion about what variety of Engish to use a while back. The consensus at the time was US spelling and terminology. IMHO, one of the biggest aids to comprehensibility is careful and thoughtful punctation. But I also try not to be lazy in my English and to be careful

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) One of the biggest changes for the docs team will be the introduction of new icons. In any case, we already mentioned elsewhere that a major review of the graphic content in our docs will be needed to weed out as many Windows screenshots as possible. That will be quite a big

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Pass. Maybe it's worth asking this question on the devs list. They'd probably give you quick and helpful answers. David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: selecting is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-19 22:05, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) Yes, we had the discussion about what variety of Engish to use a while back. The consensus at the time was US spelling and terminology. IMHO, one of the biggest aids to comprehensibility is careful and thoughtful punctation. But I also try

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: selecting is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Marc, On 20/02/2011 06:37, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-02-19 22:05, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) Yes, we had the discussion about what variety of Engish to use a while back. The consensus at the time was US spelling and terminology. IMHO, one of the biggest aids to comprehensibility is