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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. I simply meant that if she wants it done, why not get her to do that aspect of the work herself, while you do the more complex stuff? Asking you to help surely doesn't mean leaving you to do all the work yourself, does it? Shouldn't it be a joint endeavour?
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The daughter should be able to deal with the 'complex' stuff, it's plain novel style text, she's a dab hand with Autocad, Quark, Photoshop etc, and SMS and Twitter
I doubt she'll 'publish' it commercially, unless the editor suggests she really should, shouldn't be much effort to slap some front matter and a cover on it.
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Originally Posted by Doitsu
@BetterRed:
It might be possible to write some kind of simple parser if one or more of the following conditions are met:
- A limited number of protagonists talk to each other. (E.g., character A only talks to character B and vice versa.)
- The writer consistently used the same verbs and syntax for quotes or paraphrases.
- The writer used indents, additional white-space and/or other typewriter style formatting to indicate dialogues.
Can you post one or two typical pages?
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Doitsu - there are dozens of characters, lots of dialogue. I'm sure it would take a lot longer to figure out an algo, implement and test it, than to do it by hand. If you're truly interested, then when we've done the first chapter I can send you before and after files -- with owners permission of course.
It was typed on an IBM Selectric by an electrical engineer - daughter doesn't know why he didn't type ",s or ',s . . . maybe the key was broken
Whilst Windows 10 was installing itself this morning I made some calls, four people have volunteered to do a couple of chapters each. I also fiddled around with Word's 'spell checker' last night - quite a few of its "Grammar and Style" errors are resolved when the quotes and punctuation are corrected - maybe we can use that as a first pass.
BR