This document defines how manga releases hosted on The Helvetica Scenario and the files inside them have to be named.
This is to avoid a cluserfuck of filenames, which only makes the user experience worse and makes finding files a mess.
The chapter archives (which should always be compressed in .zip as it's ubiquitous and open source) have to be named using this scheme:
Series Name v04c32x1 [Group Name]{r2}.zip
The elements mentioned in this example will be explained here:
This is the series name.
It has the most common name for the series (the one with which the series is referred to on mangaupdates).
The volume number has to be indicated whenever the raws come from a tankoubon (this always being the case for Helvetica since we don't scanlate from magazine raws) in the v## format, where ## is the volume number with a padding zero if the volume number only has one digit.
As Helvetica does not work on series with three digit volume numbers, the scheme only calls for two digits.
Mushi-shi v14
Acony v03
The chapter number has to be indicated in the c### format (where ### is the chapter number with three padding 0).
For already finished series with less than 100 chapters the number can be indicated with c## instead.
The World God Only Knows v11c097
Acony v03c20
If the chapter is an extra/omake/whatever, it should be named the same as the previous chapter with an x# after the chapter number.
Acony v02c15
Acony v02c15x1 <--- Extra chapter
The group name has to be be included whenever the scanlation group name is known, enclosed in square brackets.
Acony v02c13 [red rabbits]
The revision number has to be indicated whenever the release is a revised version of an already released chapter.
It should always be put after the group name and enclosed in curly brackets.
Acony v03c19 [The Helvetica Scenario]{r2}
The naming scheme can be adaptated to various usages.
The chapter releases always have to be named using this scheme:
Series Name v04c32x1 [Group Name]{r2}.zip
Acony v02c15x1 [red rabbits].zip
Acony v03c19 [The Helvetica Scenario]{r2}.zip
Sora no Woto v01c06 [The Helvetica Scenario].zip
The volume batches (which should only comprehend one volume at a time) should be named like this:
Series Name v## [Group Name].zip
If the volume batch is made out of scanlations by different groups, all of them have to be indicated one after the other in order of appearance.
For example, if chapter 1 and 2 were scanlated by The Rabbit Reich, chapter 3 was scanlated by red rabbits, chapter 4 by The Rabbit Reich again and chapter 4 by The Helvetica Scenario, the volume batch name would be:
Series v01 [The Rabbit Reich][red rabbits][The Helvetica Scenario]
The volume batch should always be final, so the revision number mustn't be indicated.
Sora no Woto v02 [The Helvetica Scenario].zip
Acony v02 [The Rabbit Reich][red rabbits].zip
When dealing with a large amount of manga you easily stumble upon cases where normal naming rules can't be applied.
As Helvetica isn't such a large group and only scanlates a limited number of mostly normal manga, a lot of edge cases aren't really contemplated. When "porting" this scheme to other scanlation groups, one should consider the kind of manga the group in question is dealing with and edit this section to suit their needs.
The additional information field is to be included in parenthesis and comes right before the group name and after the volume/chapter/extra fields.
If the manga is a oneshot it must use this naming scheme:
Oneshot Name (Oneshot)[Group Name]{r#}.
The files have to be named using the following scheme:
Acony/
+-- Volume 01/
| +-- Chapter 01/
| | +-- 000a.jpg
| | +-- 000b.jpg
| | +-- 001.jpg
| | | […]
| |
| +-- Chapter 02/
| +-- Chapter 03/
| +-- Chapter 03/
| +-- Chapter 04/
| | +-- 087.png
| | +-- 088.png
| | +-- 089.png
| | | […]
| | +-- 107.png
| | +-- credits.png
| |
| +-- Chapter 05/
| +-- Chapter 06/
| +-- Chapter 06.1/
|
+-- Volume 02/
| […]