Re: Backporting doc changes to stable/2.10 [was: Re: Docs check-translation]

[Graham Percival]

Jean-Charles wrote:
> All the documents that I have read about typography and "good use" show 
> examples introduced with a colon (:) throughout their content.  So I 
> think it is normal French typography to do like this.

To be honest, I'm not certain where the no-colon rule came from.  I just 
checked a few technical books lying around (I'm in a lab) and they 
sometimes used colons.

Not that I consider blogs to be authoritative, but this article makes 
sense to me:
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/12/23/mind-your-colons/

(err, no pun intended by using a colon there.  :)


I propose that we use the guidelines in the link -- use a colon to 
introduce material if the sentence is a complete sentence.

Cheers,
- Graham