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Old 09-16-2013, 03:03 PM   #147
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Actually, it would be kind of a pita to do, really. It's easy enough to say, oh, well, just find dialogue and make it BLUE, but not all dialogue starts at the left margin, so you'd have to do regex, and then span the sections that were dialogue, and you'd end up with some that looks like this:

Freddy reposed on the chaise. "Dahlink," he observed, "those silk stockings drive me positively wild."

...which, as a reader, would drive me positively wild. ;-) And, of course, as Diap said...bad news on an e-reader.

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I have to admit, I didn't give a lot of thought to how much work would be involved. I just figured someone better than me at RegExp could code one to do it

I'm reading this on my phone, and Tapatalk seems to have lost any formatting in your post, so I just see black text on white background :-)
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