[mb-users] Correct typography

[Mika Heiska]

Kuno Woudt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:51:23PM +0300, Mika Heiska wrote:
>> I don't know about anything else, but I personally dislike ellipsis (and 
>> the likes), and if I notice one in the database I usually mod it to 
>> three dots. I don't think there are rules about this stuff (or have I 
>> just completely missed them) but to me ellipsis are unusable. Even if 
>> MBz supports them, lot of applications don't and often break when trying 
>> to load a filename with ellipsis on it.
>>
>> This is my experience anyway, perhaps I have been unlucky.
> 
> I have no strong opinion about ellipsis vs. three dots. (Unless the
> official release is 'Digital Media', in that case just use whatever
> they're using).  However, I have a strong preference for not 
> considering filenames when thinking about what characters to use 
> in track titles.
> 
> On windows, '?', ':' and lots of other characters are not allowed in 
> files, but we allow them in track titles.  Unix in general isn't great 
> on dealing with spaces in filenames, etc..
> 
> -- kuno.
> 

I'm not saying not to use Windows' (or other OSs) non-allowed characters 
in the database, but rather that when there is an alternative to 
something that isn't fully compatible with everything (eg. ellipsis) we 
should use that alternative. Even if it's not typographically correct.


~Mika