[mailing] Re: [mb-users] Colon/period usage in track titles

[Marco Sola]

Il Monday, December 11, 2006 4:03 AM
Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> ha scritto:

>> IMHO, the colon makes much more sense.  We also use colons in
>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PartNumberStyle and
>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalStyleGuide to show relationships
>> between a work (eg. a Symphony) and it's parts (eg. the movements).
>> We also use colons in http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle to
>> show relationships between titles and subtitles and disc titles, etc.
>
> ...which is why it's used after the work's name and before its
> movement indications. It's already there, serving exactly this
> purpose. The question is whether another is appropriate just after the
> Roman numeral. I still hesitate.

Yeah, that double ":" it always looked ugly to me and to many others editors 
but simply there's no better solution.

Ciao

MArco (ClutchEr2)