: Re: Using font to highlight a god's speech in dialogue At one point in my story, the characters are addressed by a god. In the ensuing dialogue, this god has a more archaic way of speaking, but
Many editions of the Bible print Jesus’ words in red ink (although generally not God’s). This is what people who call themselves “red-letter Christians†are referring to. Even those that don’t customarily translate the ineffable name of God as “LORD†in small-caps, and in a few cases, GOD in small caps (generally in phrases such as “the lord GODâ€). Those would be the closest parallels in standard, formal English.
It’s common, though, for science-fiction to use a different font for some alien, robot or computer, to signify that the character has an extremely alien voice.
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: You could give subtle mannerisms which are unique to each one (such as over-blinking, or a stutter). When they, have those mannerisms play out so that the reader knows which one is speaking
: The conventional way to write a nickname is in quotation marks between the first name and the surname. For example, E. E. “Doc†Smith. Either Babs Benge or Barbara “Babs†Benge works,
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