GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 698670
fix spelling/wording in menu items
Last modified: 2014-12-31 00:46:05 UTC
We should fix the spelling or wording of certain menu items in Gnumeric: Edit->Select->Go to the First => "Go to First" (menu items generally don't use articles) Edit->Select->Go to the Last => "Go to Last" View->View Statusbar: "Statusbar" (no need to repeat the menu name "View" here) View->Full Screen => "Fullscreen" (for consistency with other GNOME applications) View->View Properties => "Properties" Format->Cells->Conditional Formating => "Conditional Formatting" (a spelling mistake; also needs fixing in the context menu) Format->Text->Strike Through => "Strikethrough" (for consistency e.g. with Evolution) Tools->Plug-ins => "Plugins" (for consistency with other GNOME apps) Statistics->One Sample Tests->Student-T Test=> "Student's T-Test" Statistics->Two Sample Tests->Two Variances: FTest => "Two Variances: F-Test"
We should only change these if we can get at the same time patches for all translations.
"Go to First" "Go to Last" "Strikethrough" done. Statistics->One Sample Tests->Student-T Test=> "Student's T-Test" Statistics->Two Sample Tests->Two Variances: FTest => "Two Variances: F-Test" Andreas: any specific comments here? I think it may have to be "Student's-T Test" if it really has to have a hyphen. (The "T" binds stronger to Student than to Test.) But I would prefer just "Student's T Test" with no hyphen.
Wikipedia calls it "Student's t-test": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test
Adam, I am not sure what you mean with: Wikipedia calls it "Student's t-test". The test Wikipedia calls "Student's t-test" is a test comparing the means of two populations. This is not the test referred to here. Wikipedia uses the generic term t-test for various tests using the Student's t-distribution.
Just for the record, according to the HTML 4.01 specification as well as the SVG specification, the spelling "strikethrough" is incorrect but should be "strike-through", ie. two words separated by a dash.
As one other data point, Wikipedia calls it "strikethrough": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough
Just out of curiosity, where in evolution do you find "strikethrough"?
Triola/Goodman/Law/LaBute are using "Student t distribution". I am pretty sure we can find many different versions of this in Statistics books.
(In reply to comment #7) > Just out of curiosity, where in evolution do you find "strikethrough"? In Evolution if you compose a new message and choose Format->HTML, you'll see a menu item Format->Font Style->Strikethrough.
(In reply to comment #4) > Adam, I am not sure what you mean with: Wikipedia calls it "Student's t-test". > > The test Wikipedia calls "Student's t-test" is a test comparing the means of > two populations. This is not the test referred to here. Wikipedia uses the > generic term t-test for various tests using the Student's t-distribution. For the record, I am not a statistician and have not thought hard about this; I derived my suggestion from only a casual glance at the Wikipedia article I linked to. If you know more about statistics or have found different terminology in statistics texts then I'm very happy to defer to you here.
I have changed the wording of the controversial items in the Statistics menu, avoiding the formulations that appear to cause conflict.
I've pushed a fix for the "Formating" spelling error. This should be completely uncontroversial.
I think we have fixed what we're going to fix here. This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Thank you for your bug report.