Quechua Style Guide Contents What's New? .................................................................................................................................... 4 New Topics ................................................................................................................................... 4 Updated Topics ............................................................................................................................ 4 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 5 About This Style Guide ................................................................................................................ 5 Scope of This Document .............................................................................................................. 5 Style Guide Conventions .............................................................................................................. 5 Sample Text ................................................................................................................................. 6 Recommended Reference Material ............................................................................................. 7 Normative References .............................................................................................................. 7 Informative References ............................................................................................................. 7 Language Specific Conventions ...................................................................................................... 8 Country/Region Standards ........................................................................................................... 8 Characters ................................................................................................................................ 8 Date .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Time ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Numbers ................................................................................................................................. 12 Sorting ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Geopolitical Concerns ................................................................................................................ 17 Grammar, Syntax & Orthographic Conventions ......................................................................... 18 Adjectives ................................................................................................................................ 18 Articles .................................................................................................................................... 18 Capitalization .......................................................................................................................... 19 Compounds ............................................................................................................................. 19 Gender .................................................................................................................................... 19 Genitive ................................................................................................................................... 20 Modifiers ................................................................................................................................. 20 Nouns ...................................................................................................................................... 20 Prepositions ............................................................................................................................ 20 Pronouns ................................................................................................................................. 20 Punctuation ............................................................................................................................. 21 Singular & Plural ..................................................................................................................... 22 Split Infinitive ........................................................................................................................... 22 Subjunctive ............................................................................................................................. 22 Symbols & Non-Breaking Spaces ........................................................................................... 23 Syntax ..................................................................................................................................... 23 Verbs ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Word Order ............................................................................................................................. 23 Style and Tone Considerations .................................................................................................. 24 Audience ................................................................................................................................. 24 Style ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Tone ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Voice ....................................................................................................................................... 24 Localization Guidelines .................................................................................................................. 25 General Considerations ............................................................................................................. 25 Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... 25 Accessibility ............................................................................................................................ 25 Acronyms ................................................................................................................................ 26 Applications, Products, and Features ..................................................................................... 27 Frequent Errors ....................................................................................................................... 27 Glossaries ............................................................................................................................... 27 Fictitious Information ............................................................................................................... 27 Recurring Patterns .................................................................................................................. 28 Standardized Translations ...................................................................................................... 28 Unlocalized Items.................................................................................................................... 28 Using the Word Microsoft ....................................................................................................... 30 Software Considerations ............................................................................................................ 30 User Interface ......................................................................................................................... 30 Messages ................................................................................................................................ 31 Keys ........................................................................................................................................ 35 Document Translation Considerations ....................................................................................... 39 Titles ....................................................................................................................................... 39 Copyright ................................................................................................................................. 39 What's New? Last Updated: February 2011 New Topics This version of the Quechua Style Guide has gone through a major restructure. The topics included are now reordered in an effort to standardize and streamlined the Style Guides for all languages. Summarizing, we have: Included topics and specific sections/instructions containing information already available in other references: o in the Language Kit o in Microsoft reference materials owned by other Microsoft groups (for instance copyright/legal information, programming language conventions, geopolitical concerns.) Please, make sure you read this entire document as most topics have suffered some modification. Updated Topics The overall Style Guide content was fully updated in February 2011 as part of a major Style