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Trying to get a grasp on this, but it seems like the documentation is High Level, the cookbook tutorials are Medium Level, and I'm very Low Level in my comprehension.

At its simplest, you'd define a style like this? (in options.rpy)



1) how do you apply "newstyle" for a big block of text in your game?

2) how do you apply it to all the text in a screen?

style

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Ok, I can see that to change one line of text, you can use:



Just can't figure out how to do this for:

1) a big block of text (several paragraphs of text, one right after another)
2) an entire screen (i.e., help or credits)

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Usually, I use this:

This should work for everything in the frame.

In the following case, you can set another style just for the hbox.

If you delete the line with style_group in the hbox, hbox will use "newstyle".

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work in progress.
script: 100% (~15k words), character art: 85%, cg art: 25%, bg: 83%, gui(design): 80%, gui(programming): 90%, music/sound: 10%

Hmmm....for some reason that's not working in my script.

The text style remains the default font. "New style" only works is I do this:



It just ignores me if I use the code you used as an example.

Thanks for your help though...

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You can use style properties directly on the frames, buttons, texts, e.t.c. in the screens (you can find at screen.rpy) and you don't need to think about styles in this case.
Then the next question is why some styles are defined in python blocks outside of screens (you can find at both screen.rpy and option.rpy). Because it allows to change several objects at once.
For example: It changes the text font.
But if you want to change several text lines, you may put a style_group on a higher block. like:
The difficulty of styles is knowing where is "_ "used or ".". The documentation doesn't list all style hierarchies, so you need to look up them with shift+d in a ren'py game.

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OMG...Nyaatrap...using


instead of



solved the problem.

You're my hero.

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