Chapter 4: Formatting text and data in different languages
This chapter looks at the different conventions that exist in different languages and cultures for formatting text and data: punctuation, date formats and so on. We will see how different software packages do or do not support these differences.
You can read the chapter in Irish in the printed book »
Chapter contents
- Quotation marks
- Punctuation
- Hyphenation and word-wrapping
- Numbers
- Sums of money
- Dates and time
- Formatting data on your computer
BONUS CONTENT
Currency codes
Abbreviations such as EUR, GBP, USD based in the international standard ISO 4217.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Autocorrect features in various software packages
Choose AutoCorrect options for capitalization, spelling, and symbols (Microsoft Office)
AutoCorrect (LibreOffice)
Using AutoCorrect (OpenOffice)
Writing different kinds of hyphens in various software packages
"Keep text together" (Microsoft Office)
Inserting En and Em Dashes (OpenOffice)
An Ríomhaire Ilteangach
Michal Boleslav Měchura
145 pages
Cois Life 2017
ISBN 978-1-907494-70-3
Note.
Although this website is bilingual in Irish and English, the book itself is in Irish only.