Library of Formatting Examples:Drama/09A

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<sc>Finn.</sc>[*** Period goes inside] A knight? Nay, that can scarce be. <sc>Biörn.</sc> Why not? <sc>Finn.</sc> Did you not say yourself: the last of our knighthood is dead and gone? /* [<i>Goes out to the right.</i> */ <sc>Biörn.</sc> The accursed knave, with his prying and peering! What avails all my striving to hide and hush things? They whisper of her even now--; soon all men will be shouting aloud that---- <sc>Elina.</sc> [<i>Comes in again through the door on the left; looks round her, and says with suppressed emotion</i>:] Are you alone, Biörn? <sc>Biörn.</sc> Is it you, Mistress Elina? <sc>Elina.</sc> Come, Biörn, tell me one of your stories; I know you can tell others than those that---- <sc>Biörn.</sc> A story? Now--so late in the evening----?

Right-justified stage directions

This play has a stage direction that is right-justified and on a line of its own. Enclose it in no-wraps to indicate right-justification. The unpaired bracket is a common sight in this situation and needs no note.

Further down there are stage directions preceding a speaker's dialogue, in italics. The colon is not part of the stage directions and goes outside the markup since it acts as a separator. The dialogue is part of same "paragraph" as the directions.

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