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

Leiv Hellebo leivhe at broadpark.no
Mon Dec 11 07:16:44 UTC 2006


Marco Sola wrote:
> 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.
> 

because...?





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