Re: Recommendations on not expanding acronyms

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

ons 2004-08-18 klockan 23.55 skrev Shaun McCance:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 15:18, Christian Rose wrote:
> > I recently added a new section to my guidelines (intended for developers
> > who wish to produce messages suitable for translation):
> > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#avoid-expanding-acronyms
> > 
> > I'm particularily interested to hear from docs people on whether this
> > recommendation or others in that document are in conflict with
> > recommendations from the docs team.
> 
> I see no problems with this recommendation for UI elements.  However, I
> think there are times when it's useful to spell out the acronym in the
> documentation.  Documentation exists to provide more information than
> the UI can reasonably accomodate.
> 
> In documentation, translaters have more flexibility in rearranging prose
> to make sensible sentences, so I don't think we need to avoid expanding
> acronyms entirely in documentation.

Yes, I hope it's sufficiently clear that what I'm talking about is the
UI message case, and not text in documentation.


Thanks for your help,
Christian