On Dim 26 juin 2005 16:21, Andy Hall a écrit :
Hello,
On 26/6/05 7:48 am, "Rose Humphrey" aos4@amont-info.com wrote:
The "broken flow" results from full stops, not from the short punchy phrases. Short punchy phrases are good. Full stops are evil. Lose the full stops.
The presence or absence of full stops have absolutely no bearing on how "punchy" those phrases are.
Sorry, that's quite wrong. Look at posters done by professionals, look at newspaper headlines, look at a shopping-list for Heanven's sake. Are the full stops everywhere? No.
The fact is the reason why the flow of text is "broken" is because there are there are three distinct sentences split into 3 lines. If that doesn't read right then it would be because there is a problem with the sentences chosen. Perhaps the first one could be reworked slightly.
Punctuation has sod all to do with it (aside from being good English).
It would be good English if these fulls tops were at the end of propoerly-constructed sentences (subject-verb-object, to simplify grossly). It's not the case here and we don't WANT properly-constructed sentences anyway. This is communication and presentation. Trust me, I do have some experience here.
Microsoft Compatibility is *THE* key feature to OO.o. I doubt there would be even half the interest in it if it wasn't for this. People WANT Microsoft Office compatabilty, people NEED Microsoft Office compatability.
Yes. So tell them it can do *more* than that. If _all_ it offers is Microsoft compatibility, they'll reason that people will just use MS instead. Psychology ;)
But in your suggested phrasing it doesn't tell them anything about the "Holy Grail" feature, just vague marketing speak. Wordworth or AmigaWriter would be able to boast that. Why should they bother supporting a project which is little better than what is already available?
Then try something like "Compatible with MicroSoft Office(TM) and many other platforms". No full stop, and put the part starting "and..." on a separate line, in a slightly smaller font size if you want.