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The vast majority of webcomics are image files, that you've painstakingly created in Photoshop, the GIMP, or something similar. Humans can read the dialogue in your strip, but machines can't. What if you want readers to be able to search for a particular strip by a piece of dialogue?
stripShow allows you to add transcripts to every post which expose the content of your post to the world of search engines. These transcripts do not appear when viewing the post by default (but can be made to, using template tags), but are part of the post for purposes of searching. You can, for example, search for a character's name or piece of dialog using WordPress's built-in search engine (or, if you've enabled notification in WordPress, external blog search engines like Technorati.
To add a transcript to your blog post, simply type whatever text you normally would into the blog entry, then add your transcript in the following format:
Example 6.1. Transcript Markup
{{transcript}}
{{character=Bob}}Hey, how's it going?{{/character}}
{{character=Jim}}Hey, what's up?{{/character}}
{{description}}Bob hauls off and decks Jim.{{/description}}
{{arbitrary}}I just made this tag up. It's just that easy!{{/arbitrary}}
{{/transcript}}
What tags exist in this exciting new markup language? Well, anything you want, really. As you can see, the character tag has a parameter -- the character's name, which comes after the equals sign.