Starting a ComicBase style guide.
It is my intention/hope that this will lead to regularization of usage in the program and in the data, which will lead to consistent usage and reliable functionality.
I intend to collect information about basic English use, basic ComicBase use, usual spacing, differences in different fields, differences in ways the program handles them, and search syntaxes. I hope to be able to clean the current database of inconsistencies and that this can be carried forward.
Feel free to join in on the… fun?
Punctuation (by primary use English (not CB) use; hey, I had to organize this somehow)
Separators
Comma ,
Semicolon ;
Colon :
Terminators
Period .
Ellipses …
Question ?
Exclamation !
Horizontal lines
Em Dash —
En Dash –
Hyphen -
Minus -
Other
Vertical Lines
Slash /
Backslash \
Pipe |
Quotes
Apostrophe ‘
Quotation “ ”
Foot '
Inch "
Groupings
Parenthesis ( )
Brackets [ ]
Braces { }
Pointed Brackets < >
Less than/Greater than < >
Currency
Dollar $
Other
Other
Tilde ~
At @
Number #
Percent %
Carat ^
Ampersand &
Asterisk *
Plus +
Bullet •
Other