Spanish (Mexico) style guide¶
Use this page for Mexican Spanish. The catalog key es identifies this edition; it does not mean that every Spanish locale follows its choices. Use the shared Spanish guide for grammar, messages, punctuation, notation and keyboard wording. Choose the runtime language tag separately through language and locale.
Matching masters for interpolation¶
Use casar for the action: Casar masters, Casar kerning. States are Los masters casan and Los masters no casan; status labels are Casan and No casan. The participle is casados; adjectives are que casan and que no casan. There is no noun: recast noun phrases with the verb, using no casan for mismatch. Never use casamiento, match or hacer match.
The tool is Casamentero, masculine. Casar means both to marry and to make two things correspond; Casamentero is a matchmaker from the same stem.
These terms apply when masters are matched for interpolation. Keep the current translations of master, kerning and all other terms; inflect the match term and follow the command form already used in the file. Tool names are proper nouns and start with a capital letter. Preserve placeholders, accelerator marks, punctuation, capitalization style and file format. Keep English source strings, German and other languages unchanged. If the source says compatible, retain the translation of compatible. Leave other senses, such as search matching, and uncertain senses unchanged. This decision supersedes earlier terms for this sense, including compatibility and synchronization wording.
Address and terminology¶
Use tú in ordinary product help unless the brief calls for usted. Use ustedes for several readers. Keep the associated verb and possessive forms consistent. A technical subject does not require a different form of address for each message. See address and agreement.
Prefer computadora, la PC and video for this edition. These are local choices, not evidence that another form is incorrect everywhere. Preserve exact labels and product-specific terminology when quoting the interface.
Use comprobar or verificar when the intended check is clear. Checar is established Mexican usage; a house preference for another verb does not make it ungrammatical. Match the operation rather than assigning one verb an unsupported guarantee of certainty.
Distinguish an application that deja de responder from a phone call that ends. Cancelar, anular, eliminar, quitar and extraer name potentially different actions. Keep a precise product term when a broader synonym would lose the distinction.
Local wording without changed facts¶
Adapt idioms only when the translated message preserves the source’s claim. An event sequence does not prove a hardware cause. A reference to a specific device, such as a módem, must not become a generic compatible device if the task requires the modem.
Keep every affected person in a warning, including the reader when the source includes them. Use the shared message and placeholder rules to preserve tense, conditions, variables and named arguments. Do not repair a suspicious token by guessing what the programmer intended.
Use a neutral formulation when it preserves the actor: la persona responsable. A collective such as el personal is not a replacement for one named person. Follow the shared inclusion guidance.
Numbers and speech¶
A decimal point is customary in Mexican numeric usage: 12.5 mm. Follow the product’s verified locale formatting for dynamic values and preserve exact input syntax. A named month such as 13 de septiembre de 2026 is clear across date-order conventions.
Identify Mexican pesos when $ could be confused with another currency. Keep MXN when required by a data field. Do not change an amount, currency or unit while localizing its presentation. Use names and formats for the shared rules.
Use natural Mexican Spanish pronunciation, without adding slang or imitating a stereotype. Preserve necessary characters when reading a URL, version or identifier. The shared speech guidance covers the remaining decisions.
FontLab terminology decisions (2026-10-04)¶
Follow the canonical FontLab glossary, including its approval status and contextual notes. The current choices are:
| Concept | Wording |
|---|---|
| OpenType lookup | procedimiento |
| Fusion, using the fallback Welder | Soldador |
| FontAudit, visible name | FontAudit |
| Pin, a named point in an element | pin |
For OpenType lookup, the default is the translation of procedure. Retain a different term only with strong OpenType-specific evidence; the explicit German, French, Polish and Russian decisions take precedence. Ordinary search, dictionary lookup and code keywords are separate senses. Preserve literal lookup, lookupflag, LookupList and identifiers in code. Keep individual rules distinct from the procedures that group them.
Use the FontAudit name above in visible interface text and prose; preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers. In non-Latin scripts it is a phonetic transliteration, including Chinese. A proposed glossary entry remains proposed; this table does not confer native-team approval.
Keep marked and unmarked menu labels consistent after accounting for Qt mnemonic & and appended shortcuts. In Dimensions and Glyph Window preferences, aim for labels no longer than 120% of the source; preserve meaning when that target is impractical. Omit redundant font or colour wording when context supplies it. TTH options may omit the verb “use” and abbreviate TrueType hinting as TTH. Help may be longer, but quoted interface labels must match the final UI.
FontLab Rapid tool¶
FontLab names this tool Rapid. The name stays recognizable in the interface and Quick Help; it does not mean an ordinary fast or quick action. Use the canonical TS spelling and translate the surrounding grammar, as in Dibujo con Rapid. The contrast classifications containing English rapid use the ordinary adjective instead. See the localization guide for the current terminology and source-version checks.
In FontLab help, use posición for design-space coordinates and ancho de avance for the glyph metric. Names depend on context: the component-variation control uses Posición del ancla, even though a Bézier handle is a manejador.
A named choice and an explanatory sentence have different constraints. Keep runtime style-link choices such as Bold Italic unchanged, and quote a control's actual name even when another panel uses a different equivalent. Ordinary prose can use a natural synonym when it preserves the same action.