Quote:
Originally Posted by Toxaris
Will not happen. There is only so much you can clean up automatically. As always GIGO.
Hitch, dialogue quotes issues? Those they can be solved easily, there are tools for that... I also know it was bad, but not that bad... I understand your desire for automated analysis more and more...
|
Tox, m'dear:
oh, no, not THAT type of thing: not broken dialogues,
per se. I meant, that for some bizarro-world reason, the typist had in two instances (two diff. books) created one paragraph style for dialogue paragraphs, and one for narrative. Obviously, that's easy-peasy to solve.
For broken dialogues, I have your wondrous tool. But then there are simply broken paragraphs, outside of dialogue, and I'm working on more all-inclusive regex/searches to fix those, as much as possible...and lastly, this one real doozy (the one of which I spoke), in which there were sentences somewhat like this:
I tol him to leave the room "I'll be back, "David will make sure of that.' he smiled.
Now, obviously, no formatter can "save" that. It's just bugger-all bad. But I've given some contemplation to the idea of playing with your broken dialogues, Tox, to create a pass that marks up--identifies--all the broken dialogues, and then hand it BACK to the author to review, for preliminary clean up. Just toying with it. Not solidified in ye olden brain yet. Just pushing around in "the little grey cells." ;-)
Hitch