[mb-style] Cover style

Sami Sundell sami.sundell at kotikone.fi
Wed Sep 6 18:23:48 UTC 2006


On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:14:26PM +0200, Simon Reinhardt wrote:

> >However, I was wondering if the current way I'm doing it makes any
> >sense. Or rather, I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's derived
> >from the general principle of "link to the earliest", so I was
> >wondering if the cover AR needs a bit tuning.
> Note that this principle does not neccessarily mean you should link
> later releases of the covered version to the original. Indeed there is
> no guideline for this yet.

Yeah, the principle adapts easily to other kinds of interpretations 8)

> I've attached a picture to the wiki page to make it easier
> understandable.  :)

And an excellent picture it is, thanks 8)

> So you prefer variant 1 over variant 2.

Exactly.

I also talked about this in IRC a while ago (when I was making those
AR's), and at that point the consensus there favored variant 2, but it
was also based on one particular interpretation ofr "link to the
earliest" 8)

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 Sami Sundell
 ssundell at iki.fi



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