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Nacbrac conventions

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Tuesday, 29 December 2009, at 11:33 p.m.

In Response To: Nacbrac conventions (Stick)

Posts have been crossing, so some of what I say here by now you might find redundant.

"54S-63 s[R H1 $4..."

I'll adopt to whatever way you use and I've known you've done it this way before but is it too confusing do you think to simply list the sequence as the file name so instead of the above we'd have:

54S.63.S [R H1 $4..."

It's not confusing to me. However, as I indicated (though with a different example) in the "Ask First" post, people still familiarizing themselves with Nactation are more likely to stumble when seeing "S" in such close proximity to the 63 roll, making it seem like 63S (Split), even though the very presence of the brackets would deny a logical interpretation globally. The period in between might not register or they might wonder if it's a typo, whereas making the "s" lower case and snuggling it next to the left bracket (outside or inside) is visually unmistakable.

The issue of using hyphens/dashes or periods/dots is a separate issue. You have been using hyphens for communication on the forum, which I like for readability. You use periods in your file names (for other reasons) and because of that you and I also use periods in our Gnu rollout queue communications, and I see no conflict. Hyphens in public, whatever in private.

When you have the time and if you have the inclination, I suggest you add hyphens on your bgonline rollout navigation pages: change "41S 21" to "41S-21," etc. It would also be a reinforcement to add the same caption to your 41S-21 diagram.

I only ask now because I have a lot of reply AtS rollouts and that's how I've been doing it. It gets esp. complicated at at non pure scores. I like the hyphens to separate the rolls in general but when adding the AtS symbol I have always switched to periods and then, as shown below, could use the hyphens for the score part if needed.

It doesn't much matter if only you and a couple others look at your lists. However, if you think you might at some point post or publish a series of nacbracs, I recommend you use the find/replace function and switch to hyphens.

31P.33.-4-2 [A B28]

I'm sure there's a better solution, I haven't given it any thought until I saw this post.

I find a space between the 33 roll and -4-2 score to be sufficient. You can also opt to put the score inside the brackets.

31P-33 -4-2[A B28]
31P-33 [-4-2 A B28]

I don't add a comma after the 33, because I already use commas to separate scores, bots, rollouts or positions in a longer run-on string. Periods are distinct from commas, but as they suggest to me an abrupt stop/separation (though perhaps acceptable if no space is added) I'm not really so fond of them. If you think a space isn't enough, my other main suggestion is colon + space, with the option of another space between the score and the left bracket. The tradeoff is a little less brevity for a little more readability.

31P-33: -4-2[A B28]
31P-33: -4-2 [A B28]
31P-33 [-4-2: A B28]

Nack

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