Editra/Script editor question:automatically add quotations

[taylor85345]

I'm writing out the scrip for a vn, and personally I find it easier as to write in a paragraph format then break it out into separate lines after the fact.

I don't mind manually separating everything out, but can anyone think of a good command to have editra, or any other program, automatically add quotations to the beginning and end of each line of text. It would save me a lot of time.

It would be even better if I could make exceptions, such as "nvl clear" lines, or specify a range of lines for the command, but I'll take anything.

[mjshi]

I don't think Editra has that option, but you could try pasting your code into an alternative editor like Vim then pasting it back to Editra, or--

jEdit, a default Ren'Py editor, actually has a function that will do what you want.
To install jEdit, go to Preferences in the Ren'Py launcher (it's under the "Launch project" button), look for Text Editor, click Editra(which is your current), then change it to jEdit by clicking on jEdit when it prompts you. If the download fails download this in your browser, and extract the contents to your main RenPy directory (example, mine is in C:\Users\mjshi\Desktop\Ren'py)

Your dialogue has to look like this, with no "enters" inbetween:

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define e = Character('Eileen')

label start:

    You've created a new Ren'Py game.
    Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!
    But seriously, there shouldn't be any new lines inbetween these dialogue blocks.

    return

Then select the two lines, go to Macros on the File/edit/bar on the top, go down to Text, then click "Add prefix and suffix", then in the two boxes type ["] in both of them, without the brackets.

You could even tell it to add [e "] as a prefix and ["] as a suffix if you wanted Eileen, specifically, to say those lines.

As for the nvl clear stuff, well, just don't select those lines xD

Happy visual noveling!

[taylor85345]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. It should save me a lot of time.