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11 years ago To clarify, we want the dialogues to look like this:
---Stuff the Professor says blah blah blah. The poet---“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” Enter Claude and similar didascaliae.---More stuff the professor says. Claude---“The constant we don't care about is 4π.”---The Professor keeps talking, albeit outside the quotation marks. I just say ‘it's a skylark’, and I use single quotes for direct quotations.---“Stuff said by an anonymous student or assistant (or someone whose identity is obvious from the context)” \hspace*{\fill} . . . . . . . . . . . Exeunt.
I have settled on the convention of writing the dialogues from the Professor's point of view, so there are no quotation marks when he speaks---it is highly confusing otherwise, as most of the lecture is more or less his speech. I used the opposite convention earlier, so this will have to be corrected.