Re: [mb-style] SoundCloud URL relationships

2011-06-16 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
Just realized other thing we need to add this to: labels. http://soundcloud.com/electricminds http://soundcloud.com/mobilee-records (it's relatively common) On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Simon Reinhardt simon.reinha...@koeln.de wrote: Hi, I was wondering which relationship types to use for

[mb-style] Capitalisation of ‘from’, ‘with’, etc.

2011-06-16 Thread Piotr Szotkowski
Hi, my name is Piotr and I’m new to this list; I learned about MusicBrainz some time ago and finally got to filtering most of my music through Picard. Thanks a lot for your work on this great service! I’m writing because in my spree on capitalisation fixing I went too far and changed ‘Music From

[mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Piotr Szotkowski
Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :) While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous saying that ‘typographically-correct punctuation is preferred’, so I started updating MB with my local fixes

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Piotr Szotkowski chast...@chastell.net wrote: Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :) While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous saying that

Re: [mb-style] Capitalisation of ‘from’, ‘with’, etc.

2011-06-16 Thread Nikki
Piotr Szotkowski wrote: So, my question is whether this was decided already, and if so in which direction? Technically, yes, it was decided a long time ago (section 2c says Short prepositions (three letters or less)). Guidelines can be changed though... Nikki

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Piotr Szotkowski chast...@chastell.net wrote: Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :) While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my music I noticed

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Per Starbäck
Personally, I don't think there's any utility in replacing characters which could be done with a script. Only if there's some kind of judgement call involved does it really make any sense. Cleaning up only some releases will just leave things in a seemingly inconsistent state, so I'd really

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Per Starbäck
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

Re: [mb-style] RFC-322: Performed relationship type attributes

2011-06-16 Thread jacobbrett
Nikki-3 wrote: jacobbrett wrote: Should Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets [1] (where a portion of MoP is played as an interlude in the middle of TMP) be attributed as: Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets is a performance of Too Many Puppies Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets is a

Re: [mb-style] SoundCloud URL relationships

2011-06-16 Thread jacobbrett
Simon Reinhardt wrote: Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On to recordings: All tracks that have been uploaded will always be available for streaming so as a general type that will always work. But if something's also available for download I'd rather want to see that used because being

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Nikki
Piotr Szotkowski wrote: The problem with apostrophes is that it’s not trivial to script the replacement: And that's only English... I would probably not go as far as using the hyphen character, I've seen reports that it's not available in the standard fonts in Windows, e.g.

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread jacobbrett
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

Re: [mb-style] Capitalisation of ‘from’, ‘with’, etc.

2011-06-16 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Piotr Szotkowski wrote: So, my question is whether this was decided already, and if so in which direction? Technically, yes, it was decided a long time ago (section 2c says Short prepositions (three letters or less)).

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread lorenz pressler
i really do think, that typographical correct punctuation is nonsense in a non-print environment. it adds inconsitency and noise to the database since most users are only able (or willing) to use the chars ' and and - and an automatic determination is not reliable imho. also most fontsets

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread lorenz pressler
Am 17.06.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca: And in your opinion, in a print environment, it's not nonsense? If so, I'd like to better understand why this is your position. fonts for print are designed with the background, that they are displayed at much higher

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 17/06/11 03:57, lorenz pressler wrote: Am 17.06.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb Paul C. Bryanpbr...@anode.ca: And in your opinion, in a print environment, it's not nonsense? If so, I'd like to better understand why this is your position. i do quite some layout and typesetting work and i