[mb-users] Correct typography

[Kacper Gutowski]

On 15/09/2007, Chris B <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:
> let us also remember that 'correct' does not necessarily mean that it's
> 'best'. i would put money that next to no real release track listings use
> the proper ellipsis character. what benefit is using the real one?
> + 'correct'
> - not easily entered by users
I can enter everything I need easily (I have ellipsis under
AltGr+dot), but I understand I cannot force others to do so. But
aren't there already many Javascript tools in MB? This can be made
easy for everybody with little effort.

> - not easily tagged
What do you call "easy"? :)
I had to change manually all three-dots to ellipsis after using
picard, because I like it more this way. There are different needs.
But I think it's easier to change ellipsis to three dots (since it's a
Unicode decomposition) than otherwise.

> - different to real releases
This depends. But I guess it's true for most Latin-script releases.

No, 'correct' does not necessarily mean that it's 'best',
but it's 'good' and definitely 'better' than no rules.

On 15/09/2007, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
> I share the fears of one poster that this would drag us into endless
> debates on style for which there can be no correct solution. Adding to
> the pain is that different languages use different quotes (e.g.
> Swedish uses two right-quotes if I'm not mistaken) and what to do when
> the stuff inside the quotes is in one language and the words preceding
> it are in another lanuage? I'm in pain just thinking about it.

Yes, probably different rules for different languages would be needed.
I think current "use three dots and simple quotation marks"
are not only not enough but for non-English releases it's just wrong.
See the example that I linked. Three middle dots, moreover from different
script than the rest of title (halfwidth vs. fullwidth). Is this OK?
Oh yes, I would forgot, there are many releases (esp. Japanese),
that use either fullwidth or halfwidth Latin characters. This shall be uniform.

It may be painful, but leaving it as is wouldn't be good either.

-- 
Kacper Gutowski