[mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

[Aaron Cooper]

On Jan 28, 2008 8:01 AM, Brian Schweitzer
<brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As lowercase letters do actually appear in some movement numbers
> > > already, what if we were to use arabic numerals there instead?  So:
> > > I1. Gavotte
> > > I2. Gavotte
> > > and
> > > IVa1. Minuet. Allegro
> > > IVa2. Minuet. Allegro
> > > and
> > > IIId1. Sequenz: "Recordare"
> > > IIId2. Sequenz: "Recordare"
> >
> >
> > How about:
> > IVai. Minuet. Allegro
> > IVaii. Minuet. Allegro
> >
> > -Aaron
>
> You know, I actually had typed that out as a second suggestion for
> those three, then pulled it out because of one thing...
>
> What happens when I have:
>
> IIIa. Credo: "Because"
> IIIb. Credo: "you sometimes"
> IIIc. Credo: "get"
> IIId. Credo: "those"
> IIIe. Credo: "works,"
> IIIf. Credo: "especially masses"
> IIIg. Credo: "and normally in the"
> IIIh. Credo: "Credo sections"
> IIIi. Credo: "which have"
> IIIj. Credo: "huge numbers"
> IIIk. Credo: "of subsections"

I hate classical :)

> So what happens, then, if you have to split IIIi. Credo: "which have"?
>  You get IIIii. Credo: "which have" and IIIii. Credo: "which have"...
>
> Since the roman numeral codespace and the lowercase alphabet codespace
> share symbols, we end up with something that's kind of confusing.
>
> I agree, though, that cramming it all together gets ugly...  what if
> we dot- or dash- (a normal dash, not en- or em-) separated it?
>
> IVa.1. Minuet. Allegro
> IVa.2. Minuet. Allegro
>
> or
>
> IVa-1. Minuet. Allegro
> IVa-2. Minuet. Allegro
>
>
> Much more readable...  and if we have a separator, maybe then
>
> IVa.i. Minuet. Allegro
> IVa.ii. Minuet. Allegro

Or:

IVa-i. Minuet. Allegro
IVa-ii. Minuet. Allegro

I think I like this best as it keeps the periods just at the end of
the movement number.

-Aaron (cooperaa)