I can see the attraction to the reader (or potential reader) of my reformatting. But, until you actually unzip one and take a look, you don't know what this would entail.
Just for a start, each episode is about 115 to 120 pages long. The number of LJ posts this would take is seriously daunting. I have no idea how much I could get in any single post; but, from experience, I know that I'm often having to cut a post in two or three sections. So whatever I think I've chunked off to post will probably need to be re-chunked. If we assume that I can get a couple of pages per post (since it is an expansive format), then I would have to make upwards of 50 posts per episode.
There are 22 episodes.
As for re-formatting beyond chunking it into sections: nope. No way. This was formatted with excruciating care so that it would visually resemble an actual full script. Oh, it's not exact. To do that, I would need to have the computer program for writing scripts (which, of course, I don't). But, despite all the detailed differences that are designed to make the episodes more satisfying to read that real scripts ever are, superficially it looks as though you are reading the script. And that is intentional.
I did initially think of rewriting each script into HTML—this was back in early 2004. Even the attempt to simulate the appearance of a script left me dizzy. I'm sure some real expert at HTML/CSS could pull it off with a laugh, but I could never get it to look remotely right.
I know there are people who got the FORKNI-L announcement and did unzip the episodes and read them. I know it, because I did get a little feedback. Perhaps they are very trusting souls—or maybe they took the FORKNI-L announcement as proof of good intentions and probable lack-of-virus.
I do hope that you feel confident enough to unzip them now you know me a bit better.
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Just for a start, each episode is about 115 to 120 pages long. The number of LJ posts this would take is seriously daunting. I have no idea how much I could get in any single post; but, from experience, I know that I'm often having to cut a post in two or three sections. So whatever I think I've chunked off to post will probably need to be re-chunked. If we assume that I can get a couple of pages per post (since it is an expansive format), then I would have to make upwards of 50 posts per episode.
There are 22 episodes.
As for re-formatting beyond chunking it into sections: nope. No way. This was formatted with excruciating care so that it would visually resemble an actual full script. Oh, it's not exact. To do that, I would need to have the computer program for writing scripts (which, of course, I don't). But, despite all the detailed differences that are designed to make the episodes more satisfying to read that real scripts ever are, superficially it looks as though you are reading the script. And that is intentional.
I did initially think of rewriting each script into HTML—this was back in early 2004. Even the attempt to simulate the appearance of a script left me dizzy. I'm sure some real expert at HTML/CSS could pull it off with a laugh, but I could never get it to look remotely right.
I know there are people who got the FORKNI-L announcement and did unzip the episodes and read them. I know it, because I did get a little feedback. Perhaps they are very trusting souls—or maybe they took the FORKNI-L announcement as proof of good intentions and probable lack-of-virus.
I do hope that you feel confident enough to unzip them now you know me a bit better.