Per Starbäck wrote: > > 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 > Hmm, I've considered doing so before, and I may give it an attempt soon; a Greasemonkey script that notifies the editor with a bubble, similar to the current info-bubbles that appear next to each field.
Also, to anybody interested, Hawke and I created a table of correct, replacement punctuation here: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Use-of-fancy-punctuation-characters-tp3602123p3602409.html Sent from the Musicbrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
