Infosphere:Transcript

Here on the the Infosphere, we have several transcript articles. Currently we have transcripts for all the first 72 original episodes of the show. Thus not the new films and season 5.

This page is for understanding how to read the transcripts and editing them.

Style and rules

There are several styling and rules when dealing with transcripts.

• Stick to the layout. If you are unfamiliar how to work with the transcripts, just use what is already existing for reference.
• There are two types of lines; dialogue and description.
  • Dialogue exists inside a <poem> tag. Like so;

  • <poem>'''Speaker''': Dialogue. </poem>

    • The dialogue may include attributes and descriptions. Attributes, such as "reading" or "singing" are not in italics, but descriptions are. E.g.

Speaker: [reading] I am reading some text. [He looked up and punched the guy in the face.] Why thank you.

• • • Note: The descriptions only appear in text when it is in the middle of a sentence, should the person not continue to talk, it will be a new line with the description. Also, descriptions of scenes, cut to's, flashbacks and the like cannot exist inside a dialogue, despite if it is the same person talking in the new scene.
  • Description after a : tag, which puts it in a <dl>, thus making its indent further out from the dialogue.

  • :''[This a description.]''

    • Notice that the description is always in italics. If it is a special kind of description, such as a new scene or a cut to or a montage, it will start with this in bold;

      [Scene: Stage Hall A.]

    • Some scenes starts with a location name, some doesn't. Only included when the name is available. Flashbacks are special as well, as they start in non-italics, but not bold.

      [Flashback. There was a stone.]

• Keep it British English. While we generally allow all kinds of English, transcripts are per rules kept in British English. The reason for this is that the person who originally made the transcripts wrote them in British English, and to honour this, we will keep them so. However, names and the like appear in American English. E.g. we would not change "Kennedy Space Center" to "Kennedy Space Centre".