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| Registered: October 8, 2008 |  Posts: 24 |
| | Posted: | | | | Before I submit a contribution for The Life of David Cale (UPC 025192198625), I thought I'd get some feedback. The overview for this DVD is in all italics, including mentions of other film titles within parenthesis.
The only part of the overview that differs in appearance from the rest of the overview is the mention of the film's title which is in bold italics.
The rules state: "Use the Bold and/or Italic features for any words in the overview that are bold and/or italic as needed to match the case. Exceptions: If the entire overview uses an uppercase or lowercase font, enter the overview using standard capitalization rules for the locality of the DVD. Do not bold or italicize individual letters (as in the case of dropped capitals beginning a paragraph)."
Given the above, it seems I should italicize the entire overview and put the mention of the film's title in bold italics. Is that how you see it? Haven't seen this done before, and just wanted to make sure before I submit the changes. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to Ken, "formatting will be as per the back." That means, if the entire overview is in italics, the we enter it in italics. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree... I have even done it... and it was approved/released. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting KCJammer: Quote:
Given the above, it seems I should italicize the entire overview and put the mention of the film's title in bold italics. Is that how you see it? Haven't seen this done before, and just wanted to make sure before I submit the changes. No, you can not differ a italic/slanted font from a italic style attribute. Therefore I would assume that it's just the used font which looks slanted in his normal typeface and would attribute the overview in normal text except for the bolded part. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting KCJammer:
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Given the above, it seems I should italicize the entire overview and put the mention of the film's title in bold italics. Is that how you see it? Haven't seen this done before, and just wanted to make sure before I submit the changes.
No, you can not differ a italic/slanted font from a italic style attribute. Therefore I would assume that it's just the used font which looks slanted in his normal typeface and would attribute the overview in normal text except for the bolded part. And how do you know that it is not italics? Once again, we need to take personal interpretation out of the equation. If the font is "slanted", for our purposes, we should enter it as italics. This avoids silly debates about whether it's a slated font or italics. It doesn't matter. They're done the same way. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,330 |
| | Posted: | | | | Once again... I agree with Hal.
Slanted Text = Italic | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote:
And how do you know that it is not italics? I would assume that the bulk of the text is type set in normal style. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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And how do you know that it is not italics?
I would assume that the bulk of the text is type set in normal style. I would assume it's an italicized form of a normal style. | | | | Hal |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Quoting hal9g:
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And how do you know that it is not italics?
I would assume that the bulk of the text is type set in normal style. No need to assume anything, he gave us the UPC. Simply add it to your local and see for yourself. I did and, compared to the rest of the text on the case, the overview looks italicised. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
Quoting RHo:
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Quoting hal9g:
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And how do you know that it is not italics?
I would assume that the bulk of the text is type set in normal style.
No need to assume anything, he gave us the UPC. Simply add it to your local and see for yourself. I did and, compared to the rest of the text on the case, the overview looks italicised. Looking at the cover confirms my assumption that it's just the font which is not straight. I can't see any italics font style. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Looking at the cover confirms my assumption that it's just the font which is not straight. I can't see any italics font style. "Not straight" = italicised in DVDP. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with the doc, we can't expect all users to know the difference between a slanted font and an italicised font. It's safer to assume the "common" meaning of italicised font = slanty.
Personally I disagree with formatting entire overviews like this, but as the others have said, that's what the rules say. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with Dr. Killpatient and northbloke. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 8, 2007 | | Posts: 270 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here, here. Let it be said, let it be done. | | | Jim
More than I need, but not as many as I want! |
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| Registered: October 8, 2008 | | Posts: 24 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting eaglejd: Quote:
Here, here. Let it be said, let it be done. It be done.  I'll be interested in seeing how the voting goes on this. Personally, when compared against the overview on the back of the DVD, the contribution doesn't really match the overview on the back of the DVD case, as I professed. It almost seems as if the overview is entirely in bold italics with the film title in a larger size bold italicized font.  |
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| Registered: July 7, 2007 |  Posts: 284 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd vote no. Because we cannot assume that it's italicised as opposed to a slanted lettertype, we should not add anything. Leaving it as is we don not HAVE to assume anything because we change nothing.
Furthermore, I believe the purpose of italic and bold to be so that we can differentiate within an overview. This has no added value whatsoever; only that it reads harder... | | | My DVD's
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive? |
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