[Foundation-l] cheatsheets: proofreaders wanted

effe iets anders effeietsanders at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 06:42:44 UTC 2008


Hi,

Is it possible that something went wrong with the Dutch version? :) The
italics etc in the "result" is not in italics ;-)

Thanks! Lodewijk

2008/9/23 Luna <lunasantin op gmail.com>

> Very nice. :)
>
> The only language I should be proofreading in is probably English,
> though...
>
> I did notice a few things, which I'm only pointing out since I could see
> these being printed en masse. ;)
>
> Regarding the *en *version:
>
>   - "bullet list" vs. "numbered list" (should probably be "bulleted" for
>   consistency)
>   - In the "result" column, some entries have the first letter of their
>   first word capitalized, and others do not.
>   - On en.wikipedia, at least, we use "sentence capitalization" for
>   headings -- should we demonstrate that, even if we don't mention it? Say,
>   "level 2" becomes "Second-level heading" or some such. Just a thought.
>   - For signatures, the leading "--" isn't actually required.
>   - May want to use a list of non-scalar values as the example for a
>   bulleted list ("milk, cheese, cookies" rather than "one, two, three"), to
>   better distinguish when each list might be useful.
>
> Also, quiddity's suggestions sound like they have merit.
>
> The new version looks a bit more eye-catching, which I rather like. Uses
> more of the page space, a bit more contrasting color.
>
> The *es, hu, it, nl, and sv *versions have some odd linebreaks, in the wiki
> text column, owing to text length. Not sure if that might be confusing or
> not.
>
> Thanks for putting these together, I like them.
> -Luna
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