On Feb 5, 2008 5:21 AM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 31 Jan 2008 at 23:19, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
In fact, my opinion is that they are useful because of their
_semantics_. That is,
dashes form compound words, en-dashes show intervals, and em-dashes
form parenthetic asides.
On 31 Jan 2008 at 23:18, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
While working on something entirely unrelated, I stumbled onto this,
at Wikipedia. Though Musicbrainz is not a wiki, it would seem that if
they can do it generally, the distinction between hyphen, dash,
en-dash, and em-dash ought to not scare
On 1 Feb 2008 at 4:17, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
I'm not suggesting
that. In point of fact, I've suggested the opposite - that we neither
ask nor require any user to become such an expert. That was the
entire point of the while such a master works list is being
developed, or does not exist,
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
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
On Jan 30, 2008 11:30 PM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
The in print part is not part of the definition. It's the art and
technique of using type (graphic characters).
There's not much point in type without print. Well, okay .. things may have
evolved
Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 11:30 PM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's not much point in type without print. Well, okay .. things
may have evolved slightly since computers. ;)
We might have a mindset-difference here. I consider what I read right
now on my computer
On Jan 31, 2008 5:55 PM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We might have a mindset-difference here. I consider what I read right
now on my computer _is_ type.
Heh. Did you miss the second part of my reply?
Nope, I just wasn't sure whether to read the modal verb as
curmudgeonry or
While working on something entirely unrelated, I stumbled onto this,
at Wikipedia. Though Musicbrainz is not a wiki, it would seem that if
they can do it generally, the distinction between hyphen, dash,
en-dash, and em-dash ought to not scare folks who are dealing with the
complexities of CSG...
On 31-Jan-08, at 11:18 PM, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
While working on something entirely unrelated, I stumbled onto this,
at Wikipedia. Though Musicbrainz is not a wiki, it would seem that if
they can do it generally, the distinction between hyphen, dash,
en-dash, and em-dash ought to not scare
On Feb 1, 2008 5:44 AM, Aaron Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 31-Jan-08, at 11:18 PM, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
Starting files/directories with a period makes them hidden for Macs,
too. Ending with a period doesn't seem to be a problem though. I'm
cool with replacing ... with … (it's
Alexander Dupuy wrote:
As I say, we already use such illegal symbols (:,?, /, etc). The
Colons and slashes and perhaps other symbols are not recognised in
some mp3 ogg player filesystems e.g. iriver, OSX. argument, if we
truly are moving to a music database, and not a tagging database,
On Jan 30, 2008 10:11 PM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Explain again what value this typography brings to the table. Typography, by
definition, is a set of rules to improve layout and readability of type _in
print_. How does it apply to track titles in a database?
The in print
Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
The in print part is not part of the definition. It's the art and
technique of using type (graphic characters).
There's not much point in type without print. Well, okay .. things may have
evolved slightly since computers. ;)
The value of having it in database is that
(and actually, if there were demand, it wouldn't be all that hard to
make a CSG-de-typographicaphier plugin, to do it without even having
to handle tagger script.)
That's a great idea and all, but will it be the default? Or will we be
bombarded with complaints and questions from masses of
Brian Schweitzer wrote:
That's a great idea and all, but will it be the default?
Well, I'll be blunt: to me, MusicBrainz is a music database, not a
tagger database.
Sorry, I wasn't clear with that question. It wasn't a criticism of typography
in track titles. Rather, I was trying to
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