Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.I don't know if there is a general opening crawl thread or not, so I thought I'd make one thread to rule them all have all the information in one spot.
I found a small bit about the typesetting of the crawls. It seems there isn't any real consistency between any of them, typographically speaking.
EDIT: I'm adding some pictures for reference. The content and order may change depending on relevancy and discussion.





When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
ChainsawAsh
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aka PancakesJedi has three dots ("...") at the end of its crawl, while all the others have four ("...."), including the prequels.
Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.The Jedi one is grammatically incorrect. Any ellipsis at the end of a sentence needs to be followed by a period, which totals four dots.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
TV's Frink
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Ointment FlyI always thought an ellipsis at the end of a sentence replaced the period, totalling three dots.
Keep in mind the source.
In syntax, an aposiopesis arises when the 'if- clause' or protasis of a condition is stated without an ensuing 'then- clause' or apodosis. Because an aposiopesis implies a trailing off of thought, it is never followed by a period, which would effectively result in four dots.
Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.I'll counter your wiki entry with another:
The Chicago Manual of Style suggests the use of an ellipsis for any omitted word, phrase, line, or paragraph from within a quoted passage. There are two commonly used methods of using ellipsis: one uses three dots for any omission, while the second makes a distinction between omissions within a sentence (using three dots: . . .) and omissions between sentences (using a period and a space followed by three dots: . ...). An ellipsis at the end of a sentence with no sentence following should be followed by a period (for a total of four dots).
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
TV's Frink
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Ointment FlyOh, fuck The Chicago Manual of Style.*
xhonzi
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of Earth.Well, we're not in Chicago, so I say "go sit on it."
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Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.Well, either way, at least one of the crawls are wrong.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script
ChainsawAsh
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aka Pancakesxhonzi said:
Well, we're not in Chicago
I am. Does that mean it applies only to me?
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Chief Architect of Cynical MoralitySluggo said:
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While looking for something else, found that on EDITDROID Supplemental 4, they did a recreation of the early crawl. Not sure of their sources, sightly different spacing then the Sluggo recreation being discussed in the SWBegins thread.
***Temp copy here***
Sluggo
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is automatic for the people.Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one. They didn't have a decent set of reference materials at the time, so it is a bit off.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish memes.
Check out my reconstruction of the ROTJ Shooting Script