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Old 21st July 2014, 21:55   #207  |  Link
Betsy25
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Originally Posted by von Suppé View Post
I'm not saying it's correct formatting, if there is any. I and many people just like it this way and find the first line dash not necessary.
I myself do a lot of manual subtitling and there's a lot of feel to it, which I find more important than correct formatting or not. A first dash disturbs my feel to the text in most cases.
the - normally "tells" the viewer that a different person than the one who told the last line is now speaking, so it's perfectly normal to have both lines beginning with - in that case. (at least, that's the way I understand it)

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