Technical Sign Off

Last mandatory step
before source release

Necessary

• For any source file (both new and trend) that contains translatable text
• Before the source file enters the translation workflow

authoring

technical sign-off

A bit of back and forth...

Typographical principles

• Be correct
  (according to the punctuation and typographic rules of the English language)
• Be consistent
• Do not use more formatting (bold, italics, etc.) than necessary

Examples: apostrophe

• ... don't ...
• ... don’t ...

Examples: special characters

• 2<i>x</i> + 4
• 2x + 4
• 2𝑥 + 4

Examples: superscripts

• 9^th
• 9ᵗʰ (or just 9th)

Examples: formatting

• Type an <b>input</b> <b>number</b> in the box.
• Type an <b>input number</b> in the box.