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Overview In All Italics: The Life Of David Cale
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAddicted2DVD
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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...


You should check the rules... that is not the purpose of Bold or Italic formatting. The purpose of it is to match the look of the back of case.

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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).


Bold added by me... so except for the couple of exceptions that are listed in the rules... the purpose is to match back of case.
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The key here is to match the case. Let it be done
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Vote yes because it follows the rules - then remove the italics in your database and lock the overview.
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I must agree, if it looks slanty, then the average person would assume italics.

I would be for a rule amendment, similar to the all capitals exception.

If some one could help with the wording for it?
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It's already been discussed in detail over a multitude of threads in the Contribution Rules Committee forum - this is the outcome.  Look on page three in the topic list to find them.
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You should check the rules... that is not the purpose of Bold or Italic formatting. The purpose of it is to match the look of the back of case.

The rule don't talk about look. They ask match the case, which IMO means match the formatting of the case not the look of the case. Fine difference.
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I must agree, if it looks slanty, then the average person would assume italics.

I would be for a rule amendment, similar to the all capitals exception.

If some one could help with the wording for it?


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It's already been discussed in detail over a multitude of threads in the Contribution Rules Committee forum - this is the outcome.  Look on page three in the topic list to find them.


Yes it has been discussed more then once in the Rules Committee Forum. And the discussion went back and forth for a while... a group of us wanted it to match back of the case for the formatting... and a group wanted an exception for this. In the end Ken himself stepped in deciding that it is to match the formatting on the back of the case... even for when the entire overview is in italic. A decision that I am personally glad he made... I for one feel if the overview is all italic (slanted) then it should be so in profiler as well.
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You should check the rules... that is not the purpose of Bold or Italic formatting. The purpose of it is to match the look of the back of case.

The rule don't talk about look. They ask match the case, which IMO means match the formatting of the case not the look of the case. Fine difference.


The formatting is the look.... and it does say match exactly. And if we are to match exactly as much as we possibly can that means all italic = all italic in profiler. And as more then one person has said... slanted text = italic
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The formatting is the look....

No, formatting is markup. Look may be an effect of the markup.
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And as more then one person has said... slanted text = italic

That does not make it correct. But my inequation is font != style.

EDIT: Have a look at your favourite word processing program. E.g. in MS Word we have the option to select a font and we have the additional possibility to give the text some style attributes. They are not the same thing.
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You and i are in absolute agreement and we are both on the wrong right side of this.

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yup... Ken is totally aware of this... and he made the decision to match the back of the case when it came to the entire overview like this. He even made special comments not to make any exceptions (no double italics [if that is what you would call it] or anything) for it in his announcement in the rules committee forum.
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