[projectaon] Re: Comment period for Magnakai series
- From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:15:58 -0700
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 00:49, Jonathan Blake wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Simon Osborne<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23/03/2012 23:34, Jonathan Blake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Simon Osborne<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> BOOK 8
>>>>>
>>>>> (er) 157: [so: Capitalise 'hide', 'hide' and 'or' at the start of the
>>>>> three
>>>>> options.]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about putting dashes in front instead since this is
>>>> constructed as a single sentence?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or an ellipsis, I guess?
>>>
>>> ...hide in the pulpit--turn to 96;
>>>
>>> I just think a dash at the start and in the middle of each option looks
>>> rather strange:
>>>
>>> --hide in the pulpit--turn to 96;
>>>
>>> It looks as though the text is being parenthetically offset by a pair of
>>> dashes.
>>
>>
>> I hadn't noticed the other dashes on the same line. Maybe also switch
>> those to commas?
>>
>> -- hide in the pulpit, turn to 96;
>
>
> While preferable, that phrasing is still out of harmony with the usual way
> such things are written in the LW books. On the very rare occasions when the
> text is phrased like this, the "turn to x" part is bracketed. See:
>
> <http://www.projectaon.org/test/en/xhtml/lw/13tplor/sect284.htm>
> <http://www.projectaon.org/test/en/xhtml/lw/24rw/sect174.htm>
>
> Maybe use a colon instead of the comma?
>
> -- hide in the pulpit: turn to 96;
>
>
> Then again, I'm not too fussed about using initial dashes and replacing the
> existing ones with commas if it'll get Books 6-12 re-released. ;-)
Thanks for finding those examples. I'm not enthusiastic about how
those were handled either. We'll deal with those soon enough. :)
--
Jon
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