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 rules of the English language)
  • Be consistent
  • Do not use more formatting than necessary

Examples: apostrophe

  • ... don't ...
  • ... don’t ...

Examples: special characters

  • 2<i>x</i> + 4
  • 2x + 4
  • 2𝑥 + 4

Examples: superscripts

  • 9<sup>th</sup>
  • 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.