[Solved] Adding preference that determines length of pauses

[Syrale]

So I've been trying this for several hours now, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

To simulate real speech, I always add short pauses after punctuation marks in my game's dialogue. This makes the text more natural to read in slow text mode, but causes it to be a bit choppy if the text is set to display instantly. That's not very good, so I want to give the player the option to decide how long the pauses should be (or turn them off entirely).

I got to the point where I created the following custom text tag:

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def c_tag(tag, argument):
    if persistent.speechpause:
        return [(renpy.TEXT_TAG, "w="+str(persistent.speechpause_length))]
    else:
        return [(renpy.TEXT_TAG, "w=0")]
config.self_closing_custom_text_tags["c"] = c_tag

But then I saw

The dialogue text tags {p}, {w}, {nw}, and {fast} are processed before custom text tags, and should either be not included inside a custom text tag, or passed through unchanged.

So that explained why it wasn't working.

I also came across RENPY_LESS_PAUSES, but that's not really what I need. I only want the player to be able to turn off specific pauses (those designated with the {c} tag), not all of them.

Does anyone have an idea for how to solve this? Or would customizing pauses be a worthwhile feature request?

[philat]

You could use config.say_menu_text_filter with regex instead of custom text tags, I think.

[Syrale]

Thank you very much for leading me in that direction! I managed to get it working