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Aminar:

--- Quote from: Snowleopard on January 01, 2012, 03:29:54 AM ---I've seen italic used for someone else's mental thoughts so I would think it would work for
skin scripting.  Wild idea by the way.

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Thanks.

I'll have to look into other fonts, I do like the idea.  Besides which the two races that do this have very different languages and it would help to differentiate the two should it come up later.  Now I need a loopy font and a jagged one.  Hmmmmm.

Quantus:
The animorph books I read as a kid used <  > brackets to indicate telepathic communication. It worked quite well, especially since the only character with it were the hero team and the big boss villain who would occasionally crash into their otherwise private communication. 

I have scene books that use font/size changes, italics, and even bold letters, but those rely a bit more on quality printing (not as big a deal now as it is in those 80's paperbacks).  I have also scene all caps used, but that was supposed to be an overpowering metal shout sort of thing, so it might not be too bad.   Combinations can also work if a single doesn't click with you.

Aminar:

--- Quote from: Quantus on January 04, 2012, 02:54:06 PM ---The animorph books I read as a kid used <  > brackets to indicate telepathic communication. It worked quite well, especially since the only character with it were the hero team and the big boss villain who would occasionally crash into their otherwise private communication. 

I have scene books that use font/size changes, italics, and even bold letters, but those rely a bit more on quality printing (not as big a deal now as it is in those 80's paperbacks).  I have also scene all caps used, but that was supposed to be an overpowering metal shout sort of thing, so it might not be too bad.   Combinations can also work if a single doesn't click with you.

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When I was discussing this with my roommates everyone brought up Animorphs too(including me.)  That's a big part of the reason I'm going with the >> method actually.  Nostalgia for the win.

Is there a reason your using scene instead of seen? 

meg_evonne:
the brackets work for me

Quantus:

--- Quote from: Aminar on January 04, 2012, 07:41:38 PM ---Is there a reason your using scene instead of seen?

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Ya, its because there was too much blood in my caffeine stream this morning :-P

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