FocusUno Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) Concerning commas, does anyone know if space a "must" after comma? In getting rid of quotation marks"Miami Beach" Florida "Ocean Drive" "Art Deco District" I would normally change to preserve phrases Miami Beach, Florida, Ocean Drive, Art Deco District, but in the name of saving caption character space Miami Beach,Florida,Ocean Drive,Art Deco District would this backfire...? TIA Edited August 25, 2021 by FocusUno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 meanderingemu Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, FocusUno said: does anyone know if space a "must" after comma? yes. it isn't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cryptoprocta Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 2 hours ago, FocusUno said: Concerning commas, does anyone know if space a "must" after comma? In getting rid of quotation marks"Miami Beach" Florida "Ocean Drive" "Art Deco District" I would normally change to preserve phrases Miami Beach, Florida, Ocean Drive, Art Deco District, but in the name of saving caption character space Miami Beach,Florida,Ocean Drive,Art Deco District would this backfire...? TIA These are keywords, not captions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dave Richards Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 2 hours ago, FocusUno said: Concerning commas, does anyone know if space a "must" after comma? In getting rid of quotation marks"Miami Beach" Florida "Ocean Drive" "Art Deco District" I would normally change to preserve phrases Miami Beach, Florida, Ocean Drive, Art Deco District, but in the name of saving caption character space Miami Beach,Florida,Ocean Drive,Art Deco District would this backfire...? TIA I do exactly as in your third example. No problems whatsoever and it saves unnecessary keystrokes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cryptoprocta Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Dave Richards said: I do exactly as in your third example. No problems whatsoever and it saves unnecessary keystrokes. In your captions? The two of yours I randomly clicked on have proper captions. Edited August 25, 2021 by Cryptoprocta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dave Richards Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Cryptoprocta said: In your captions? The two of yours I randomly clicked on have proper captions. No, not in captions, only keywords. For captions I simply use a straight forward sentence or sentences that describe the image and where space allows I may include spaces between the location words, e.g. Hampshire, England, UK, but that isn't essential. Edited August 25, 2021 by Dave Richards corrected text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cryptoprocta Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Dave Richards said: No, not in captions, only keywords. For captions I simply use a straight forward sentence or sentences that describe the image and where space allows I may include spaces between the location words, e.g. Hampshire, England, UK, but that isn't essential. Yes, I try to caption in sentences. The OP was specifically asking about captions, as she currently captions with keywords. Edited August 25, 2021 by Cryptoprocta 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dave Richards Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Cryptoprocta said: Yes, I try to caption in sentences. The OP was specifically asking about captions, as she currently captions in keywords. OK. I didn't read it that way, thanks for clarifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FocusUno Posted August 28, 2021 Author Share Posted August 28, 2021 thanks for responses final question: word1 word2 word3,word4 word5 word6 word7 word8,word9 word10, assume word9 word10 is a phrase or isn't a phrase is final comma needed, or can a character space be saved without unwanted effects via: word1 word2 word3,word4 word5 word6 word7 word8,word9 word10 TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Colin Woods Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 I keyword and caption in Adobe Bridge. If your last keyword is a phrase then when you import the keywords into AIM that last phrase will come across as separate words. So if my last keyword is Chateau Frontenac it will come over to AIM as Chateau, Frontenac. To avoid this i put a comma then a single letter. I would keyword Chateau Frontenac, z. Then my Chateau Frontenac will be preserved as a phrase and when I am choosing the supertags in AIM its easy to just delete the lone z. Did that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Colin Woods Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 And to the OP, I would think about putting a real sentence in the caption. Your caption should describe Who is doing what, where, when, why and how. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ognyan Yosifov Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Colin Woods said: I keyword and caption in Adobe Bridge. If your last keyword is a phrase then when you import the keywords into AIM that last phrase will come across as separate words. So if my last keyword is Chateau Frontenac it will come over to AIM as Chateau, Frontenac. To avoid this i put a comma then a single letter. I would keyword Chateau Frontenac, z. Then my Chateau Frontenac will be preserved as a phrase and when I am choosing the supertags in AIM its easy to just delete the lone z. Did that make sense? I always separate keywords by semicolons in Adobe Bridge. Never seen problems with the last one as a phrase, even if I didn't put a semicolon at the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Betty LaRue Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Ognyan Yosifov said: I always separate keywords by semicolons in Adobe Bridge. Never seen problems with the last one as a phrase, even if I didn't put a semicolon at the end... Same here (Bridge), but I use commas and not have one after the last phrase. It remains a phrase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Colin Woods Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 41 minutes ago, Betty LaRue said: Same here (Bridge), but I use commas and not have one after the last phrase. It remains a phrase. I'm pretty sure that it breaks the phrase for me. I will go and do a test on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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