[SOLVED] how to increase space between lines of text?

[renoa-heartilly]

hello everyone sorry for asking such a noob question
i've searched, but only found style adjustment answers in the cookbook, google search, and here
what i want to do is give two lines of text a little bit more room, because in arabic the accents on letters look cluttered when they are this close together, and it can't be read that well.

maybe it's easy and i couldn't find it, all i could find was the margin and padding for the window itself (the graphic box, with spaces on the inside and outside) and the spacing between two letters horizontally.
is it possible to increase the space between two lines so the reader can see the accents through renpy?
or do i need to replace the Dejavu font with something with bigger line spacing? (is that even in the font properties?)

thank you very much and sorry if it's been already answered! please direct me to the appropriate thread if it exists!

[philat]

No worries. Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pro ... ne_spacing

[trooper6]

So...to answer your question, I had to figure out how to do it myself.
So, what I'll do here is tell you the process I went through so you can reproduce the process yourself if need to do more things.

So first thing I did was create a test project with some multiline text. One being said by a character, and one by the narrator.

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label start:
    scene black
    "Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!"
    c "Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!\n
     Welcome to INSERT NAME HERE WHEN I THINK OF ONE!"
    "First I need to know if you identify as a boy or a girl."

Then I went back to the documentation...specifically the pages on styles and style properties.
Styles: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.html#
Style Properties: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_properties.html#

Looking at style properties, I noting the line_spacing property...so all I need to do is increase the line spacing of the style of my text. But...what is that style?
The Style Inspector section of the Styles page (http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style.htm ... -inspector) says:

When config.developer is true, the style inspector can be used to see which styles are being used by a displayable.

To activate the style inspector, place the mouse over a displayable, and press shift+I. Ren'Py will display a list of displayables that include the mouse position, in the order they are drawn to the screen. (That is, the last displayable is the one on top of the others.)

Click the name of a style to display the styles the displayable inherits from, and the properties each style contributes the to the final displayable.

So I loaded up my test game and opened the style inspector for the narrator text and for the character text. It turns out that the narrator text uses the say_thought style and the text said by a character uses the say_dialogue style. So, in the sections of the screens.rpy file that deals with the say screen (though you could put it anywhere), I put this:

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init -2:
    style say_thought:
        line_spacing 20
    style say_dialogue:
        line_spacing 20

That did it.

[renoa-heartilly]

No worries. Sometimes it's hard to know what to search for. http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pro ... ne_spacing

thank you very much! i can't believe i couldn't find that line in my initial search

So...to answer your question, I had to figure out how to do it myself.

aaah thank you so much for going through all that! i'll try to replicate the results this evening when i get the chance

[renoa-heartilly]

hello trooper6 i used your method and it's working great!
to me the styles i needed to change were say_dialogue and nvl_dialogue
the problem of loading the accents on a line that hasnt appeared yet is still there, but at least now it's not as annoying as when they were mistaken for the words that has already appeared (because they were so close)
the lines i added to line 60 of screens.rpy turned out like this:

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init -2:
    style nvl_dialogue:
        line_spacing 10
    style say_dialogue:
        line_spacing 10    

so thank you very much!