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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
I'm very interested to hear why you're doing this. I've been toying around with a similar concept for a few years, although I've been highlighting pieces of sentences different colors.
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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.
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. But for commercial consumption?
Man, to me,
WORST IDEA EVER. It's right up there with these (insert derogatory term here) who think that narrative paragraphs and dialogue paragraphs should somehow be formatted differently, with dialogue block-style and narrative first-line indent. The point of formatting, in a book/eBook, for fiction, is that it allows the reader to forget they're reading, to allow them to be lost in the suspension of disbelief. Not to remind them every other goddamned line that they're reading a book. How distracting that would be, I should think!
My vote? NO.
May I ask, snookums, what you're thinking, in terms of use case?
Hitch