Proper Use of Text Tags?

[sciencewarrior]

There are very specific rules for when to use a semicolon or a dash, but how about {w} and {p}? Should I use something like {w=.5} after every sentence, or only after an ellipsis? What are the rules you follow?

[Camille]

I don't use either of them because they require me/other players to click too much. ^^; I've had people really annoyed over them because they can't easily be clicked through. I would maybe only use them in a very dramatic situation where you absolutely need the pause, otherwise let people read at their own pace.

[Joey]

I think I'm one of the (very, very, possibly the only person who does this) few people who use a {w=0.3} after every sentence/ellipsis and a {w=0.1} after every comma, semicolon or double-hyphen (no idea what to call that, basically -- this --). I don't like to make it a {w} because it forces people to click a lot, but I like the auto-pausing {w=xx} gives in that it kind of emulates real speech, and most of my VNs are written in first-person. But I noticed some people don't like that because they read really fast, so I suggest you leave that out, unless you're stubborn like me ;w; Or put a ctc-indicator so they know when they should click, which I'm planning on doing. Or you can shorten the pauses to {w=0.05} and {w=0.1} but I'm not sure people will even notice...

What's {p} though? O.o

[Gambit74]

According to the help doc:

The paragraph pause tag is a self-closing tag that terminates the current paragraph, and waits for the user to click to continue. If it is given an argument, the argument is interpreted as a number, and the wait automatically ends after that many seconds have passed.

Anyway, as Joey pointed out, I always thought the wait tags were appropriate at punctuations where a person would normally pause at for a quick second if they were actually speaking. Such as comas, ellipsis, and periods etc.