Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

On 12/05/2013, at 21:40, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> IMO, the only thing I would have a problem with is p.2, third panel, The passage:
>
> * "The LibreOffice user interface is available in many languages, even in languages for which 
> localized commercial software is not available. Support for over 100 languages and still 
> counting."
>
> The separation of the last two lines ... the last line "languages and still counting" looks like 
> it no longer belongs to the paragraph and we should avoid hyphenating the word "languages", By 
> convention, we should be writing "one hundred" when writing in paragraph form which would fix the 
> problem, but the number "100" has larger impact. I would then suggest remove the bold sentence 
> and just make "100 languages" in bold and this still seems to bring home the point that we 
> support over "100 languages".

Marc, using spelled-out numbers in text is only "convention" if you choose to follow a style guide 
that insists on that. In science and technology, using numerals is as much, or more, of a 
convention, partly because numerals are more easily and quickly understood by people with English 
as a second language. For example, our manuals use numerals for that reason. 

I'll look at your samples and make other comments when I get a chance. 

--Jean

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