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Break dancing and French kiss

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:27 pm
by Leva Beliu
I just wrote a new book about monsters in Illarion with the help of my good friend PO Harok. I have a couple of technical questions before submitting it to the Illarion community.

1. As we included dialogues in the various descriptions, there are several line breaks in the pages (\n). Will that affect the 200 chars limit for one page, in long sentences? That is: Is the unused portion of the line counting in the total number of chars?

2. To introduce dialogues, we first used double dashes, but then they are part of the script shell. Are French quotation marks («...») an acceptable alternative in the book script, or, for that, could we use En dash (–) or Em dash (—) to introduce direct speech.

Thanks
PO Leva Beliu :roll:

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:44 pm
by Kevin Lightdot
+1 for an original topic title.

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:24 pm
by Llama
Kevin Lightdot wrote:+1 for an original topic title.
QFT

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:47 pm
by Faladron
It is possible to use the normal " " for your book.
Look what I found! wrote:IMPORTANT:

If you want to write a " within the text you have to write " else the script causes an error.

Nitram
See if that works

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:26 pm
by Arvemor

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And so Hadrian was a llama, and that's all he ever talked about.  "I love llamas,\" he said.
Is that right?

In book that I wrote I think I just used regular quotation marks around speech, and it worked fine.

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:22 am
by Estralis Seborian
Common standard is ' instead of ". Like:

#me says: 'I am cool.'

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:43 am
by Flux
You could put two apostraphes in a row. '' looks like ".

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:50 am
by Estralis Seborian
That looks ugly in case of linebreaks. As I said, for NPCs, usually ' is used.

Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:04 pm
by Nitram
Line breaks ( \n ) are one character.

Quotations are " or '

In case of " you have to write \" (counts also as one character)

Nitram