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-====== Style guide ======
-**In short:** \\
-**Control chars** – ()[]\*\* –: fewer are better \\
-**Content:** if applicable word for word \\
-These guidelines are the result of long discussions that included a sign language interpreter who also does subtitles and also a deaf person using subtitles. Also, I used this (german): https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/service/untertitel/Untertitel-Standards,untertitelstandards102.html
-The following was our common result:
-=== In dialogs the person speaking has to be indicated ===
-Full names are only useful when first using them. After that please use a form of abbreviation. If you use first names or family names is up to you (different might be appropriate from talk to talk), but the prinpipal is always: the shorter the better!
-== example: ==
-<file plain>
-Constanze Kurz: welcome!
-*applause*
-Kurz: nice to have you here!
-Frank Rieger: also a warm welcome from me, too!
-Rieger: …
-</file>
-== example: (only first/nick names are known) ==
-<file plain>
-Laura: Hi Alice! Hi Bob!
-B: Hi Laura, how're you?
-A: Hi!
-L: I'm fine, thanks!
-</file>
-=== No parenthesis around names! ===
-=== dialog between only two people can be further simplified ===
-== example: ==
-<file plain>
-- Hey, everything's fine?
-- yes, how about you?
-- all done and dusted
-- then we'll see each other tomorrow!
-</file>
-=== cuttings are allowed, but should be avoided ===
-"Ehm"s, stumbling or words that were said twice can be omitted, but not if they're important (e.g. for a joke)
-=== Subtitles are in direct speech, but no quotation marks, except there's really a quote ===
-=== numbers should be written in digits, because that's shorter. If readability is affected, you can write numbers in words (mostly only with numbers from one to twelve) ===
-=== Sounds are marked with "*". ===
-Unfortunately there is a bug in amara which uses the * for italic. Just ignore it we will fix that with a script in the textfiles.
-== Examples: ==
-<file plain>
-*applause*
-*laughing*
-*loud laughing*
-*boo*
-*disquietness*
-*phone ringing*
-</file>
-=== explicit linebreaks in amara can be created with [Shift]+[Return] ===
-== example: ==
-<file plain>
-Well, yes, thank you very much for your talk (linebreak)
-*standing ovation*
-</file>
-=== Q&A ===
-in the Q&A part you can do it like that. Name at first appearence the Angel with "Angel:" or "XY Angel" if you want to specify the type of angel, questions with "Question:", answers as "Answer:". Later abbreviate to eather only the type of angel, e.g. "Audio:", "Signal:", "Herald:" or "Angel:" and abbreviate question and answer to "Q:" and "A:" for shortness.
-== example: ==
-<file plain>
-Herald Angel: We welcome to this talk
-Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman,
-*raging applause*
-Herald: … Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
-*cautios applause*
-Herald: And now have fun with the talk:
-"How does good software look like?"
-Torvalds: Good evening
-*applause*
-Stallmann: Evening
-*applause*
-Gates: Good evening
-*applause*
-Jobs: Evening
-*applause*
-Stallman: Software must be free.
-That's the highest principle!
-Gates: And how does the programmer
-make a living of it? Air and love?
-Torvalds: My software is used on a
-huge bunch of devices and programmers
-are paid to develop that software,
-when it should be used on new devices.
-Jobs: And what about the UI design?
-Only if it looks good software is also used!
-Stallman: I want to use the CLI!
-Gates: To send users back to the
-hell of text, after they got to know
-graphical user interfaces …
-Jobs: … which YOU stole from US!
-There's still a court decision pending!
-Stallman: Good concepts are
-always copied and further developed,
-just like with the code.
-Torvalds: That reminds me of a specific
-line of code that was actually copied
-from Linux to Windows: "if OPEN BRACKET …
-</file>
-=== If you have a talk which is totally mixed in two or more languages, then use the language "Klingon" in amara (seriously) ===
-Afterwards there can be a whole translation to english and german and whatever.