Use punctuation, or no? Any other formatting considerations to keep in mind? I read the part (in the Talk Designer Expansion Pack) about no special characters,  .txt done in Notepad.
Now I'd like to hear from experienced users...does it seem to make any difference how it's punctuated or spaced?

I punctuated and put one space between each sentence....and it worked okay for me.  Of course I only used periods, commas, exclamation and question marks.

Also, I did have to add some words to the DictEng file a couple of times and getting the wierd translation part down was an exercise for me (being dyslexic), but doable.

Thanks for weighing in Sixus1.  Since my post, I've acquired Mimic, and by way of comparison, THEY advocate phonetic spelling for words that may by ambiguous if spelled correctly. That's kind of what I was wondering, ifdoing that wouldn't  make it more accurate, which is now confirmed.