<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Gary posted:<BR>
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For Gemstone, of course, there is the fact that every Barks story uses <BR>
exclamation points. We certainly won't be going in and changing them to <BR>
periods. So the "exclamation point" look will persist for a while yet.<BR>
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What about more modern stories, the various stories Gemstone's been printing that were made in the 90's and later? Are those stories' scripts sent to you with exclamation points everywhere or do you add those in when you're preparing things for publication? If they're sent to you that way, I can see leaving the exclamation points in, since removing them would just mean more work and time(which at times, you probably have little of).<BR>
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And thanks for explaining why using exclamation points so much came about in the first place.<BR>
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Derek Smith</FONT></HTML>