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Originally Posted by Hitch
Tex, you know I love you, but, as a reader, so help me God, if I received an eBook from Amazon or wherever, and the dialogue was either in bold, or some other color, not only would I spew and return the godawful thing, but I would complain to Amazon, et al, VERY LOUDLY.
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Strong agree. DO NOT use bold/marked-up dialogue in a commercially sold book.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
If someone is making a book for the visually impaired, or there's some compelling reason to do this, for a SINGLE reader (person), great.
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Strong agree. I would only use this for personal use only.
I probably should've put warnings or more
NOTES all up in my post... but I thought it was pretty noted up already!
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Originally Posted by Hitch
May I ask, snookums, what you're thinking, in terms of use case?
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Which is why I asked the question in my first post.
I'd be interested in what exactly lidao is intending to use bold dialogue for.
Complete Side Note: I have my own similar use-cases, but I don't want to derail this entire topic though. My use-cases have to do with:
- separating the dialogue tag from the dialogue
- technical statistics/analysis
- How much of a book is dialogue?
- color-coding to help visually proof OCR
Anyone who's interested, PM me.
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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Apparently the rule about whether the full stop goes inside or outside a closing parenthesis (when the clause in parentheses isn't the entire sentence) has changed too.
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Can you show me some of this? I'd be very interested to read about this rule changing.
To my knowledge:
Logical Punctuation (punctuation sometimes outside) is used in British-style + technical writing.
American-style (punctuation always inside) is used across the board, with rare edge cases of punctuation outside (such as bibliographies or article titles).
Note: I wrote a little bit about this in my
Post #16 "Punctuation rules of thumb?".