Oh, didn't realize we were suppose to read the panels 3 seconds apart. That's gonna take an awfully long time to read :-P
(It goes back to the whole "modelling correct behavior" issue, I think. Would you like a strip teaching English that says, "Look! I see man with three balloon red"?)
--gejyspa
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jonathan Jones
<eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
No, there's no need. The fact of the text being in separate panels is enough. In panels where a single person is saying multiple sentences, they are separated with {.i}.
If a person said {coi}, and then 3 seconds later said {mi do nelci}, would you think they were talking to themselves about something you like?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:54 AM,
<rdentato@gmail.com> wrote:
Il giorno , Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Should we insist on .i separators in the second and subsequent panels?
I think we should. I always envisaged lojban comics dialags to be a continous stream of text for each character speaking.
One might think that there's an implicit {.i} at the begininng of a new balloon but this would break some dialogue that uses multiple balloons for a single utterance (for example to show a different point of view in a new panel).
I once experimented with using ":" as an alternative ortography for {.i} (just imagine the initial dot and the small dot over the "i" to be re-arranged in space) but it doesn't seem to have caught on. There's an example here: http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=751 .
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mu'o mi'e .aionys.
.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )