Thread:Stezie95/@comment-26843868-20151021155044/@comment-26843868-20151022112917

There's actually something I want to do with the lyrics eventually, but it's the kind of thing that would probably take a lot more effort than it's worth.

What I'd like to do is come up with a comprehensive set of style and Romanisation guidelines so that we can have a close to 100% consistent copy of lyrics. This would also mean completely checking the Japanese lyrics (which would take a while kanji, the really complex characters, are really annoying for me still because, as I'm sure I've mentioned, my Japanese isn't very good). It probably wouldn't hurt to properly check the translations (and provide translations for untranslated stuff) either, but that would take even longer to do.

The reason why I've thought about this is because we have lyrics that seem to be from different sources and to various styles. I believe that I've seen Hepburn style long vowel markings (ī) around a fair bit here, but the lyrics rarely match this. In addition, katakana is often just typed uppercase (which is against existing guidelines here) and sometimes there's absolutely nothing done with it (making it indistinguishable from hiragana and kanji). Some solid rules on spacing of sentence-ending particles would be nice too (I often just merge them with the previous particle if they're preceeded by them, but different people do that different ways). I know there's other problems too, but I'm sure this is enough to get the point accross.

Anyway, there's a lot of work to keep me interested. Perhaps I could also document a bunch of stuff so we can try building a tem of lyrics fixers XD. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person around here with the sufficient knowledge, but I guess no-one else want's to take the initiative on this kind of thing (and I won't hold that against them).

Back to the original topic, if you don't take issue with the symbols (which you just said you don't), I'll add them to the Japanese lyrics when I come accross them. I'm still undecided on the English and Romaji lyrics though. I think they're usually ignored in romaji, but of course that's be something I'd like to put some actual thought into. They'll probably end up in the English eventually.