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FUEL Style and Convention Guide for Hindi

This book is prepared for FUEL project. This is ready for the approval and comments from Hindi Community working under several organisations

Edition 0

Rajesh Ranjan

FUEL Project Community

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Abstract

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Preface
1. Why?
2. What is Hindi?
3. Who should translate?
4. General Translations Guidelines
4.1. Fonts
4.2. Collations
4.3. Plural Forms
4.4. White Spaces
4.5. Accelerators
4.6. Program Syntax, Functions, Tags, Placeholders
4.7. Message Length
4.8. Numerals
4.9. Calender
4.10. Honorific Usages
4.11. Acronyms
4.12. Product/Brand/Company Name
4.13. Keys Name
4.14. Abbreviations
4.15. Legal Statements
4.16. Currency
4.17. Dates and Times
5. Hindi Terminology
5.1. FUEL Hindi
5.2. Gnome Glossary
6. Punctuations & Text Conventions
7. Units and Measurements
7.1. Volume, Weight, Length
7.2. Power, Temperature, Electricity
7.3. Time Units
7.4. Information Units
8. General Spelling Guidelines
8.1. Anusvar and Chandravindu
8.2. Use of Nukta
8.3. Case Signs
8.4. Transliteration of Foreign Words
8.5. Cardinals, Ordinals, Multiplicative and Fraction
8.6. Indeclinable
8.7. Hyphen
8.8. Glidal ie Shrutimulak 'ya' or 'wa'
9. Basic Quality Parameters
9.1. Accuracy
9.2. Language and Grammar
9.3. Terminology
9.4. Comprehensibility
9.5. Culture Specific
9.6. Target Readership
10. Conclusion
A. Bibliography & Further Reading
B. Revision History
Index