On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Jim DeLaHunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Willensmacht wrote: >> >> I've looked through the Classical StyleGuide as well as the Opera Track >> StyleGuide and haven't seen anything talking about how to format the act >> and scene in a German-language release.... you can also find instances >> where the formatting is "I. Akt, I. Szene," for example. >> >> Has a standard been decided already? >> > > Not as far as I know. > > We don't even have official agreement for how "Act I, Scene I" should be > written in the English language. See > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/OperaTrackStyle OperaTrackStyle and > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalTrackTitleStyle > ClassicalTrackTitleStyle for some of the discussion about the English > language case.
I don't catch your meaning: do you mean these pages are not official yet or that these pages disagree? > See http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseLanguage > ClassicalReleaseLanguage</href> to see how tangled the discussion on > language can get. > > So my advice is to come up with a convention which you think you and others > can apply consistently for German-language track titles, and then propose > that convention once we've agreed on the English-language styles. I don't see why English should come first. If German-speaking users can reach a consensus before the others, perfect (I don't speak German, but being French, I know that we will be the last to reach a consensus - no, I meant: that we will never reach a consensus :-D ) -- Frederic Da Vitoria _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
