This means that even singular objects need to be expressed in at least 2 or 3 different forms. If adjectives are involved, they too will need to agree with the gender in French. Please ensure that there is consistency in the terminology used throughout the screen text and the manual. Incidentally, the same group of translators should always undertake the whole project, otherwise the QA to ensure consistency throughout can become expensive and time consuming. Indicate clearly which parts of the text should be in upper and lower case.
Abbreviations can often be meaningless.
Indicate the exact number of characters allowed for each line and whether any individual word has to be specially positioned within a line. Indicate whether we can insert additional lines, and if so where. Since we always proof-read from hard copy, this also meant printing them all. We have written programs which extract and reinsert text, but there is still a lot of extra QA involved. These statements might be responses to things said by other characters elsewhere in the game but unless we know what they relate to, our translation, whilst perfectly correct, could appear to be completely out of context when the game is played.