Quoting T!M:

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I wonder if we could reach a consensus about that?

I'm such a cynic bastard ... guess what my first thought was after reading this sentence.

Quoting Kathy:

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I'm not sure which is "correct" but I prefer leaving a space before and after the slash. At my age it makes it easier to read.

A space does make it easier to read. Just flagged my double features and I have a few that have no space. The film titles do not stand out like the ones with a space, they look like one long title. It also is visably more appealing and less stressful on old eyes (which I also have).

I'd personally prefer there to be a double gap each side:

Hostage  /  Setup

This makes it clearer that the "/" is less likely to be part of the title.

Profiler's doomsday scenario?

V/H/S/V/H/S/2
V/H/S/ / V/H/S/2
V/H/S/  /  V/H/S/2

I'd certainly need some time in a dark room after that!

I routinely use double gaps in 'the real world' for all sorts of things; (then again, using my own rules I sometimes use no gap or single gap versions for things too; it all depends on if the title either side are one word or more, the context and how much space there is.)

I realise this probably hasn't been very helpful!  Perhaps we need more than one title field in the database, so that multiple titles can be listed individually for each profile?  (But I have a feeling this might be far more complicated that it sounds.)

Paul

Quoting Addicted2DVD:

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I never liked the spaces around the "/".... it never made it any more or less readable to me.

IMHO it does with multi-word titles.

For example

Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
vs.
Flags of Our Fathers / Letters from Iwo Jima

And then it's also clear that Face/Off is not two movies.

Quoting Voltaire53:

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Agree with DJ Doena... plus from experience it seems to be what most people prefer and have used in the past

Same here!

Quoting Voltaire53:

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Agree with DJ Doena... plus from experience it seems to be what most people prefer and have used in the past

I agree as well.  The bulk of the ones I have are like that. 

The only one that do not is one set that is a 4 film set.  IIRC at the time having the spaces would actually cause the last title of the set to be truncated. But I don't think that's the case since the last update

"From Dusk Till Dawn/From Dusk Till Dawn 2/From Dusk Till Dawn 3/Full-Tilt Boogie"

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Quoting Kathy:

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I'm not sure which is "correct" but I prefer leaving a space before and after the slash. At my age it makes it easier to read.

A space does make it easier to read. Just flagged my double features and I have a few that have no space. The film titles do not stand out like the ones with a space, they look like one long title. It also is visably more appealing and less stressful on old eyes (which I also have).

Agreed, this is how I do it.  Most of mine are in the DB this way, the others I've changed in my local but for the most part haven't bothered to try and contribute for obvious reasons.

Quoting T!M:

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Well, that title could be formatted as:

Hostage/Setup
Hostage / Setup

No space in front of the separator in the enumeration, but a space behind.

Old McDonald had a pig, a dog, a cow, a horse.

So:

Hostage/ Setup