Using Quotation marks

[sculpteur]

Hi,

My problem is really simple and really stupid but i don't find any solutions here : https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html

When I make one of my character speak, I just want to use the following symbole : "
I want it to be displayed in the say window

But Renpy already use it for displaying the dialogue text in the say window.

Of course I could use that one instead : « » or that one : “ ” but i'am not sure if it's all right in english to use it in a dialog.

[Draziya]

If you want text to be displayed with quotation marks around them, you have to do something like the following:

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define e = Character("Eileen", what_prefix='"', what_suffix='"')

The above example was taken from the dialogue documentation page here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... characters

[sculpteur]

Yep, thank for answering me so fast.

But i already know I can do this. It wasnt my problem.

I wanted to use quotation mark inside is for describing emotion.

Like this :

e " How are you ? she asks kindly. "

And I want this :

e " “ How are you ? ” she asks kindly. "


But i resolve it, by using this :
\" (backslash-doublequote)
Includes a doublequote in a double-quoted string.

in order to avoid renpy considering the quotation symbol in the code.

But now I have an other probleme :

I'am looking for a way to generalize the process without having to change my 4000+ lines of dialog.

for example, something which allow me to do this :

define e = Character ("Eileen", what_prefix=' “ ', what_suffix=' ” ')

e "How are you ?" "she asks kindly."

And the result will display :
Ellein
“ How are you ? ” she asks kindly.

[Imperf3kt]

There's two ways:

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    e "\"This is one way to do it,\" Says Eileen."
    e '"And this is another way to do it," says Eileen'

Essentially ' and " can both be used in place of each other, but not for each other. " won't close with ' and ' won't close with ", so you can use them between each other interchangeably.
\ is an escape character, the next thing directly after it, will be ignored and displayed as text instead of translated into part of the game code.

To make short work of it, use the find/replace function of your text editor.

[Ocelot]

You technically can use creator-defined statements for that, but it will still require you to change your code.

By the way, did you know that you can use bot double and single quotes to denote a string? You won't need escaping for double quotes in single-quoted line and vice versa: e ' "How are you ?" she asks kindly. '