User blog:Swordzmanp236/Scribblin' by the Sword III: Notes on quotes

Alright, looks like I've just found my next talking point here. There appears to be some infighting over the use of quotation marks around titles. Nowhere is this more pronounced than our rap transcripts we call "Meanings".

Because there is such a difference of opinion, I can only show you what I was taught in reference to this dispute.

We know quotes are for quoting (DERP!), so I'm not going to beat a dead horce there.

If I read a news item, for instance, here's what I see:


 * Titles of major works are usually in italics: The Great Gatsby (book/film), Top Gun (film), Alias (TV series), The San Franxisco Examiner (newspaper), Hamlet (long-form play)
 * Titles of short/minor works, or subsections/chapters in a major work get "quoted": "Caballo Sin Nombre" (episode of Breaking Bad), "The Raven" (short poem), "An Unexpected Journey" (chapter from The Hobbit)

This just looks like the right format to me, but what about youse guys?

--Swordzman