Re: Layout of dialog

In article <smg874d9j4b0j0anf485f7fc5jqkp0umnh@xxxxxxx>,
James A. Donald <jamesd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:26:37 -0700, David Friedman
1. Near the beginning, there are chunks of a couple of lectures in the
College, each of which consists of multiple paragraphs. It looks a bit
odd to have the first paragraph of dialog included with the preceding
text, then the others standing alone. I could, I suppose, add some
non-dialog text to each paragraph, but it seems pointless.

Your lecturer has no mannerisms? The class is entirely passive? The
lecture is completely non interactive? No action other than the
lecture takes place during the lecture?

Not enough of any or all of those things to provide an extra sentence
per paragraph.

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