I'll toss my hat in the ring. It seems to me that the "M" notation is there
mostly for kewlness, as it doesn't do the function that it's supposed to. In
all of the examples, it ends up being a divider between the two things in
question, but doesn't say which way to look for the masteries. All of the
suggestions are to put in another character, zero, blank, plus, carrot,
along with it to indicate which way to look. But then why the M, other than
as part of the direction indication scheme?
None of these look good to me. As somebody said, the important thing is to
capture the TN with a glance and to get the masteries secondarily. A simple,
unambiguous way to do this that everyone will recognize is to use
parentheses.
4(1) = a four rating with one mastery.
Then again, I'm not one for aesthetics, so I'll bet people think that this
is ugly. But it would work for me.
Mike
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