Re: Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Too funny! :-) Lauri Watts wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MiscellaneousGuideline?highlight=%28ellipsis%29 Do read all the way down, and excuse me for finding the final comment on the page to be slightly ironic. - -- http://jdlh.com/ Jim DeLaHunt , Vancouver, Canada •

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Sorry I've been absent from this thread. I've been away from email for most of this week. I'm one of the people who is quite comfortable typing in correct typography in my classical track titles. I had someone object to my using it — specifically em-dashes — in tempo markings on one track,

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Various other issues

2008-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Quick replies to the laundry list of issues. Brian Schweitzer wrote: 1. I finally realized where that ugly (feat.) concept we've rejected for classical came from - it's in the official CSG, second track title example, The Lark Ascending (feat. violin: Tasmin Little). The biggest problem

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-02-01 Thread Leiv Hellebo
Jim DeLaHunt wrote: I'm one of the people who is quite comfortable typing in correct typography in my classical track titles. I had someone object to my using it — specifically em-dashes — in tempo markings on one track, saying that em-dashes were *forbidden* in MB entries. If you're

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-02-01 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
I'm not sure using elipses is such a great idea, because sometimes 4 or 5 dots are used on the cover, which can only be done as a series of periods. THat would be rather inconsistent. Besides, replacing ... with proper elipses i trivial with tagger script. Philip On 2/1/08, Brian Schweitzer

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement) of types and tempos

2008-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Leiv Hellebo-2 wrote: David K. Gasaway wrote: I've been trying (unsuccessfully?) to frame these discussions in the perspective of the average user. My views may or may not be representative, but I'd like to know that these folks have been given due consideration. Me too. On behalf

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Classical and Release Language

2008-02-01 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Lauri Watts wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 11:05 PM, Leiv Hellebo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Jim DeLaHunt wrote: My big obstacle in discussing ReleaseLanguage is that I don't have a clue why we're recording that data, what problem it's trying to solve. I guess you would have problems with

Re: [mb-style] Re: Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 33, Issue 52

2008-02-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
On Feb 1, 2008 1:47 AM, StoneyBoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of more points of view from a non-classical editor, who has a few classical CDs: Leiv Hellebo wrote: But I am a bit shocked after my CD ripper told me yesterday that a simple one and a half minute Mozart solo piano track

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement) of types and tempos

2008-02-01 Thread Leiv Hellebo
Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Leiv Hellebo-2 wrote: I hope this will all be resolved for the best eventually, but I am concerned that this is going too fast, and undiscussed. Well, I see the discussion taking place right here, and no-one is making changes yet. There are currently open Bach cantata

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-02-01 Thread Arturus Magi
On Feb 1, 2008 5:33 AM, Philip Jägenstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure using elipses is such a great idea, because sometimes 4 or 5 dots are used on the cover, which can only be done as a series of periods. THat would be rather inconsistent. Besides, replacing ... with proper elipses

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement) of types and tempos

2008-02-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
On Feb 1, 2008 12:28 PM, Leiv Hellebo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim DeLaHunt wrote: Leiv Hellebo-2 wrote: I hope this will all be resolved for the best eventually, but I am concerned that this is going too fast, and undiscussed. Well, I see the discussion taking place right here,

[mb-style] [clean up CSG] Structural concept

2008-02-01 Thread Brian Schweitzer
I took a few hours, and put this together. It has enough permutations, I'm sure I've not quite worked all the bugs out yet (email me off-list if you find one, I'll try to fix it). But this is a practical example of the covers just about any possible cat-corner combined CSG-OperaStyle framework I