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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
This may have been answered before and I missed it, but do we enter a single letter in bold for the new formatting?
For example if a paragraph in the Overview starts out with a vastly oversized (and bold) first letter of a word, do we enter it as bold as well? The rules say "any words" but nothing exactly regarding single letters or single characters. Since the first letter is much bigger and of a different font, you can't really tell whether it is bold style or just a fatter/bolder font. Therefore I would not use the style attribute bold in this case. Besides it would really look ugly.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Since the first letter is much bigger and of a different font, you can't really tell whether it is bold style or just a fatter/bolder font. Therefore I would not use the style attribute bold in this case. Besides it would really look ugly. That's the same way I see it as well, and didn't contribute them. Several contribution votes made it clear that this was something that wasn't very clearly understood in the rules however. So Ken, please update the rule to word it out more clearly. | | | | Corey |
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 8,669 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just encountered another nice little formatting oddity - have a look at this:  If it wasn't for the film title in italics, I'd never even thought of putting the entire overview in bold. But that film title, which is not only in italics but, more importantly, NOT bolded, does seem to indicate that all other text is actually bold. So it seems like we'll end up with a fully bolded overview, except the words The Sweetest Thing... |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 2,366 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
If it wasn't for the film title in italics, I'd never even thought of putting the entire overview in bold. But that film title, which is not only in italics but, more importantly, NOT bolded, does seem to indicate that all other text is actually bold. So it seems like we'll end up with a fully bolded overview, except the words The Sweetest Thing... I can't see anything bold here. There is a large protion in normal style and a few words in italics which happen to be also lighter than normal. And we don't reproduce light style. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Iagree with you, Tim. I see italics but no bold. believe it or not BTW the other night I saw a three-layer bold, which made me NUTS!!!!!!!!! Wish i could remember what it was, but that'sprobably a good thing.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | I've modified the overview rule as follows:
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). | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thank you Ken!!!  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 670 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
This may have been answered before and I missed it, but do we enter a single letter in bold for the new formatting?
For example if a paragraph in the Overview starts out with a vastly oversized (and bold) first letter of a word, do we enter it as bold as well? The rules say "any words" but nothing exactly regarding single letters or single characters. You're referring to what is called drop caps, right?  In that case, I would say no, as there is currently no way of emulating this type o layout in DVD-P... EDIT: Oh, Never mind - didn't see Kens post before I wrote this...  | | | | The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (William Gibson) | | | | Last edited: by Rander |
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| Registered: May 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,934 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks |
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