Automatically adding pauses to accentuate dialogue?

[StValentines]

Just to try it, I added small pauses at commas and at the end of sentences, similar to how games like Phoenix Wright add tone and pacing to their dialogue. We decided we wanted to go with that for all the game's dialogue, and seriously, it reads so well, we love it.

But of course, I'm the one who has to code it in, which means going through all the dialogue as I write it to add {w=0.1} after every single spoken comma, {w=0.3} after every spoken sentence, etc. It's kind of a pain, and this game is looking like it's going to be very, very long.

So I'm wondering, is there a way to adjust the code in the game so it automatically applies these brief pauses in dialogue? Perhaps automatic, defined wait times after the appropriate punctuation and a space within quotation marks? I'd still add anything more complex or specific into the dialogue itself, of course, but even just specific pauses after every comma, period, and ellipsis would be amazing and save me so much time.

tl;dr: I'm adding stylized pauses in my dialogue and would enjoy some code that presents it that way automatically.

[isobellesophia]

Just to try it, I added small pauses at commas and at the end of sentences, similar to how games like Phoenix Wright add tone and pacing to their dialogue. We decided we wanted to go with that for all the game's dialogue, and seriously, it reads so well, we love it.

But of course, I'm the one who has to code it in, which means going through all the dialogue as I write it to add {w=0.1} after every single spoken comma, {w=0.3} after every spoken sentence, etc. It's kind of a pain, and this game is looking like it's going to be very, very long.

So I'm wondering, is there a way to adjust the code in the game so it automatically applies these brief pauses in dialogue? Perhaps automatic, defined wait times after the appropriate punctuation and a space within quotation marks? I'd still add anything more complex or specific into the dialogue itself, of course, but even just specific pauses after every comma, period, and ellipsis would be amazing and save me so much time.

tl;dr: I'm adding stylized pauses in my dialogue and would enjoy some code that presents it that way automatically.

Maybe you are reffering into this

viewtopic.php?t=43009#p447324

[StValentines]

Maybe you are reffering into this

viewtopic.php?t=43009#p447324

Pretty much!

Unfortunately the consensus from that basically came down to "use find/replace functions," which doesn't quite serve my purposes since a universal find/replace would apply itself to narration as well, not just dialogue.

But it did inspire me to use the text editor's find/replace, which doesn't eliminate the workload but significantly reduces it. I'll consider that a win! Thanks.

[philat]

Actually you can use config.say_menu_text_filter instead of config.replace_text and it will work.

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define config.say_menu_text_filter = lambda t: reduce(
        lambda t, p: t.replace(p[0], p[1]), 
        [ (n,"{}{{w={}}}".format(n,m)) for m,v in 
          { 
            0.1: [', ', '; '], # one tenth second pause for these (comma and semi-colon)
            0.3: ['. ', '? ', '! ', ': '] # three tenths second for these (period, question/exclamation mark and colon) 
          }.items() 
          for n in v ], t )

Might be confusing... It basically uses the dictionary to add {w=time} tags after occurrences of the characters (with a space after themselves) in say text.