Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Fixing new spell out numbering styles in LibreOffice 6.1

Þann fim  3.maí 2018 16:57, skrifaði Németh László:
> Hi,
>
> LibreOffice 6.1 will support “spell out” numbering styles of OOXML (One,
> Two...; First, Second..., 1st, 2nd...),
> as you can see in the following screen cast (only English, French and
> German examples):
>
>   https://youtu.be/c0j4Sjie8t4 <https://youtu.be/c0j4Sjie8t4>
>
> My questions to the native language speakers:
>
> 1. Are these numbers correct in your language?
>
> You can check here, too: https://numbertext.github.io/
> index.html#testimonials

My language (Icelandic) is not there, but I don't see any trouble except 
for 1st, 2nd... which we treat as numbers (1., 2., ...) and then there's 
a big gender issue*.

> 2. Do we need to change the default format etc. according to the normal
> usage of your country/language variant?
>
> For example, in the recent implementation, British English and American
> English differ with the “and”
>
> 101 -> “One hundred and one”: en-AU, en-GB, en-IE, en-NZ
> 101 -> “One hundred one”: en-US etc.

In Icelandic there has to be an 'and': 'eitt hundrað og einn'

> 3. Is it enough to support only a single gender in Spanish etc. languages
> to cover common outline and page number usage in publishing?
>
> Book/Part/Chapter/Section/Page/Paragraph One, or simply One (normal usage
> in English outline numbering)
> First Book/Part/Chapter/Section/Page/Paragraph (less common in English, but
> default numbering styles cover this, too)

Numbers/adjectives take on gender in Icelandic; Book/Page/Paragraph 
would be feminine, Chapter/Part/Section are masculine, and in formal 
speech without referencing which kind of item we would use neutral form.
Also this is a stylistic minefield...

Best regards,
Sveinn í Felli

> Note: there is a plan to use similar spell out formats in currency and date
> formats of Writer, typical in contracts and invoices in several
> languages. These formats are only supported in Calc yet by the NUMBERTEXT
> Calc extension (or also in Writer macros via the new
> com.sun.star.linguistic2.NumberText
> service).
>
> Best regards,
> László
>
> P.S: A recent question (comes from Rene Engelhard) for Hebrew contributors:
>
> Is the Hebrew correct in the next line of resource file of the Numbertext
> Calc extension:
>
> <name lang="he">NUMBERTEXT() וMONEYTEXT() פונקציות גליון Calc</name>


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