[Fwd: Re: Formatting lists of things]

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Forwarding this one that Khaled sent me in private. Seems not
problematic case.

Claude

-------- Message transféré --------
> De: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny eglug org>
> À: Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
> Sujet: Re: Formatting lists of things
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:42:12 +0300
> 
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:12:36PM +0200, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > Le samedi 23 juin 2007 à 13:35 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee a écrit :
> > > 2007-06-22 klockan 17:23 skrev Shaun McCance:
> > > > I've run into a localization issue in formatting DocBook,
> > > > and I need some input from translators to decide how best
> > > > to solve it.  Let's say I have a list of people's names.
> > > > There could be any number of people.  I need to format
> > > > this as inline text.  So in English, I'd do:
> > > > 
> > > >   Tom and Dick
> > > >   Tom, Dick, and Harry
> > > >   Tom, Dick, Harry, and Sally
> > > 
> > > Dutch (both nl_NL and nl_BE) practice is to omit the last comma. Your
> > > example as they would be written in Dutch:
> > > 
> > >   Tom and Dick
> > >   Tom, Dick and Harry
> > >   Tom, Dick, Harry and Sally
> > 
> > I guess this is more or less the same with most European languages. What
> > about other languages, Djihed, Yaïr, Abel ?
> 
> In Arabic traditionally	the "and" should present between each name wither 
> you use comma or not. It should be in Arabic:
>   
>   Tom and Dick
>   Tom, and Dick, and Harry
>   Tom, and Dick, and Harry, and Sally
> 
> Or written in Arabic:
 <  توم و ديك
 <  توم، و ديك، و هاري
 <  توم، و ديك، و هاري، و سالي
>