Punctuation style guide discussion

[Fred Slota]

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

[Fred Slota]

But first, let's start with the invisible member, the space.

 

No initial spaces. In any field. LIKE " %"

No final spaces. In any field. LIKE "% "

No double spaces. (Even after sentences.) In any field.  LIKE "%  %"

 

Spacing around punctuation best handled on a mark-by-mark basis.

 

Any other rules?