I mean, imagine making an edit or insertion on the 2nd line of a 10 line paragraph, and the next 8 lines then need to be edited as well because of the margin overflow you caused with that insertion. It just seems ridiculous that anyone writing a quest file would need to carefully manage their own margins like this.
Also, there are <ce> and <---> tags everywhere due to this. If the end of the line could serve as the end of the response variant, it would look much better. And you wouldn't have to worry about a missing tag or something. There's just more room for error here with all these tags and indents and manual margins.
In other words, this:
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QuestorOffer: [1000]
<ce> My name is _questgiver_. Can
<ce> you help me find my friend? I can
<ce> only pay you _gold_ gold.
<--->
<ce> Please help me. My friend _missingperson_
<ce> is missing. I am afraid that %g might have
<ce> been hurt. I will pay you _gold_ gold
<ce> pieces if you find %g2.
RefuseQuest: [1001]
<ce> Good day, %ra. I will look for someone else.
<--->
<ce> Is no-one willing to help me?
<--->
<ce> A thousand pardons. I mistook
<ce> you for a heroic adventurer.
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[1000][QuestorOffer_to_Player]
My name is _questgiver_. Can you help me find my friend? I can only pay you _gold_ gold.
Please help me. My friend _missingperson is missing. I am afraid that %g might have been hurt. I will pay you _gold_ gold pieces if you find %g2.
[1001][QuestorResponse_to_PlayerRefusing]
Good day, %ra. I will look for someone else.
Is no-one willing to help me?
A thousand pardons. I mistook you for a heroic adventurer.