Dual Dialogue

[KB]

This option is not part of 3.0.3 but will be available in the next free update to 3.x. This update is still a few weeks away.

All the best,
Keith

[JoRo]

@KB

Because I like a challenge, for the next update I have added a new option to Compile (in the “Text Layout” area): “Convert Preserve Formatting blocks to dual dialogue tables”…

Hi, Keith.

1. In your compiled text above, the individual character names have a single alignment, more or less central to the page, whereas the dual-dialogue character names are in separate columns with discrete alignments of their own.

2. In the sample US Stage Play project attached, using the default settings, the dual-dialogue character names are scrunched down into single-letter columns when compiled. KEITH becomes:
   K
   E
   I
   T
   H

3. If I go into Script Settings and change the character first-line and left indents from 3 inches to 2 inches, the names compile as one would hope, but the alignment of all the character names in the script are shifted to the left.

How do I set the alignments for the dual-dialogue elements so that they look like your sample and are independent of the main character names?

Thanks in advance.

Slàinte mhòr.

US Stage Play.zip (75.9 KB)

For completeness, this post relates to this thread:

Simultaneous dialogue

From the sample given in the manual – where Lorenzo, Jemma, and Felicita are all aligned – I assume this is just the way it works: only Guido gets shunted over to a separate column, implying that the core alignment is universal and that dual dialogue shifts the second speaker over in isolation (can probably be changed in secondary software if compiled to an editable format). Can’t see a way to change this, but perhaps someone else can. That or tech support: mac.support@literatureandlatte.com …

[JoRo]

Does anyone have any ideas in respect of the question above? How is dual dialogue formatted / spaced during compile?

Thanks in advance.

Slàinte mhòr.

[JoRo]

One last bump, in hope…

Slàinte mhòr.