At least Bogdan Butnaru has planned to write typography assisting software. See http://musicbrainz-mailing-lists.2986109.n2.nabble.com/Mechanically-assisted-updating-of-typography-on-MusicBrainz-td5978214.html from early this year.
> song's title → song’s title > a 'quoted' text → a ‘quoted’ text > in the '90s → in the ’90s > rock 'n' roll → rock ’n’ roll And since actual use often is "erroneous" for apostrophe at the beginning, with spellings like Rock ‘n’ Roll (I've given examples in http://musicbrainz-mailing-lists.2986109.n2.nabble.com/Ellipses-quotation-marks-and-the-miscellaneous-guideline-td5734079i20.html#a5769484 ) I think a style guide should explicitly mention if that should be "corrected" (my opinion) or not. >> The hyphen thing is harder, because AFAIK there's no way >> to actually see the difference (at least in the standard >> font MB uses) so they're kinda hard to vote on anyway. Hopefully these will become autoedits anyway. My preference is that if you enter titles and names with ambiguous ASCII characters there should somewhere on the screen appear something like The character - is ambigous. It is usually a hyphen for hyphenated words, but sometimes a dash or a minus sign. If you are unsure just leave it as it is. [hyphen] [en dash] [em dash] [minus] _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
