On 07/20/2013 06:31 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
Personally, I favor precise and hermetic language. People who need
certain information will understand; people who don't, they don't care.
That's elitism and is wrong, really wrong.
Precision doesn't mean it has to be hermetic. People how know,
Hi :)
I have encouraged a few native-English speakers to join this list with the aim
of
1. translating from geek or
2. smoothing out clunky English phrases that look like translations from other
languages
However, since they joined there have been no further requests for individual
strings
Hi :)
For the non-geeks, stripping out the coding gives us
Insert mode is enabled.
The text cursor is a blinking vertical line.
Click on the area to enable the overwrite mode.
Insert mode is enabled. When in Writer
The text cursor is a blinking vertical line.
Click on the area to enable
Hi :)
Sorry i am not completely clear about 2 crucial things
1. What is the string as is?
2. What is the suggested alternative?
I couldn't find the Oasis definitions and i loathe looking through MS Office
anything. The link given seems to be specifically about healthcare but may not
have
2013/7/21 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
Sorry i am not completely clear about 2 crucial things
1. What is the string as is?
Returns the actuarial rate of interest of an investment excluding costs or
profits
2. What is the suggested alternative?
Compute the internal rate of
On 21/07/2013 at 10:26, Krunoslav Šebetić kruno0...@gmail.com wrote:
Precision doesn't mean it has to be hermetic. People how know, don't
need help. Don't you find contradictory to write _help_ in hermetic
language?
Yes, no and no.
First thing: by hermetic I mean understood by people with
But what about providing some clues in the help
for those who know what they want but are
unacquainted with the developing system in the
first place? Your approach leaves too high entry
threshold.
Continuing with the Calc functions, I might know
what statistical distributions are but to
Hi :)
Thanks :) I think
Computes the internal rate of return for a series of cash flows
is a minor improvement on the 2nd one. Neither make any sense to me but some
background reading about the topic made it clear i would never understand
enough to get a short simple sentence. The 2nd one
Well, I gave you few. :)
To find more I would have to proof read all calc formulas and I'm not
really sure I want to do that.
I see a lot of errors of cosmetical type in Calc, which I'm
notreporting. Things like consistency.In some formulas you have nper/
npery / NPER / NPERY , some strings
Hi Tom
Best to see for yourself what IRR is.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/irr.asp
2013/7/21 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
Thanks :) I think
Computes the internal rate of return for a series of cash flows
is a minor improvement on the 2nd one. Neither make any sense
2013/7/21 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
For the non-geeks, stripping out the coding gives us
Insert mode is enabled.
The text cursor is a blinking vertical line.
Click on the area to enable the overwrite mode.
Insert mode is enabled. When in Writer
The text cursor is a
Hi :)
+1
The When in Writer should be taken out of that 2nd and 4th examples.
I just quickly tested in all the apps except Base and it works the same in all
of them. In Calc you only notice it if the cursor is in the formula-bar /
function-bar, whatever you call that big 'white' field at
2013/7/21 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
+1
The When in Writer should be taken out of that 2nd and 4th examples.
Or be added.
I just quickly tested in all the apps except Base and it works the same in
all of them. In Calc you only notice it if the cursor is in the
Thanks, Sérgio,
here we go:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67148
Lp, m.
2013/7/21 Sérgio Marques smarque...@gmail.com:
Please check:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Switching_Between_Insert_Mode_and_Overwrite_Mode/sv
2013/7/21 Martin Srebotnjak mi...@filmsi.net
2013/7/21 Sérgio Marques smarque...@gmail.com:
My problem with this string is that Where in Writer does not appear for
translation. But it´s also true that the area is unclear.
Yeah, does that mean that string in English appears also on other
Thanks for the report.
Regards
2013/7/21 Martin Srebotnjak mi...@filmsi.net
Thanks, Sérgio,
here we go:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67148
Lp, m.
2013/7/21 Sérgio Marques smarque...@gmail.com:
Please check:
Hi Tom, *,
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
[...]
The overwrite mode is enabled. When in
Wrtiter The text cursor is a blinking block.
Click on the area to enable insert mode.
I think even after correcting 'obvious' typos the paragraphs are still
Hi :)
Thanks ! Good plan ! :)
Now that i have found it i can't think of any better name than the area! I
was hoping that some inspiration would leap out at me if i ever found the area
but it didn't. Anyway i think i took this thread waaay off-topic and i am glad
to see a few people have
File: scalc/01.po
Context: 04060183.xhp par_id3149254 49 help.txt
Comments: yXdFy
ahelp hid=HID_FUNC_KRITBINOMReturns the smallest value for which the
cumulative binomial distribution is less than or equal to a criterion value.
/ahelp
Should be:
ahelp hid=HID_FUNC_CRITBINOMReturns the smallest
Nice catch.
Oasis says it's greater then
http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part2.html#CRITBINOM
MS Office says less then in function title description
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-functions-by-category-HA102752955.aspx?CTT=1
and then it says
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