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Originally Posted by HarryT
Very good point, Jellby. The Dickens book that I'm proof-reading at the moment is full of such quotes in the dialogue. You can get some real gems, such as:
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Ack.. ok, that is true... but I did write the script in about 5 minutes.
If the writer is going to use devices like that, the issues get a bit more complicated in writing a script... and the script is unlikely to ever be perfect... I could look for punctuation prior to a "
'" and that would catch the vast majority of cases. The remaining problem becomes examples where someone decides to "quote" a word or short phrase without punctuation. At that point, we are getting beyond a simple script and probably need some artificial intelligence.
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Bill