[Solved] Inconsistent centering, but only for the first line?

[yon]

I've noticed that when I try to display strings as centered, one of them consistently does not display in the center, but rather, off to the side. Or maybe, it's that all of the others are slightly to the side?

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scene black with fade

    # VARIABLE SETTING - change or comment out
    $ v_date = "???"
    $ v_time = "???"
    $ v_area = "???"
    $ v_room = "???"

    # LABELS - do not change
    centered "[v_date]\n
    [v_time]\n\n
    {p=0.25}
    [v_area]\n
    [v_room]"

That gives the result of what is in the first screenshot.

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I'm not sure why this is happening? When I try to swap the variables for actual text, the first line is still inconsistent with the others:

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# LABELS - do not change
    centered "aaa\n
    bbb\n\n
    {p=0.25}
    ccc\n
    ddd"

How can I make all of the lines display consistently?

[yon]

Update-

It all displays correctly if I do this:

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centered "[v_date]\n[v_time]{p=0.25}\n\n[v_area]\n[v_room]"

But why is that?

[Ocelot]

Second and following lines start with 4 spaces. First one does not.

[Imperf3kt]

Instead of a bunch of line breaks, for formatting like this, I'd suggest triple quoted strings
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... logue-mode

[m_from_space]

I suggest using a screen to show something like this to the player, not some "centered" character that is weird anyway in my opinion. And why did you indent lines after "scene black with fade"?

[Imperf3kt]

And why did you indent lines after "scene black with fade"?

Thats a quirk of the forum bbcode.

[yon]

And why did you indent lines after "scene black with fade"?

Thats a quirk of the forum bbcode.

Yeah, I didn't realize it was going to do that.

[yon]

Second and following lines start with 4 spaces. First one does not.

Oh, didn't realize it counted that -- from the indenting, I assume? That makes sense, though.

[yon]

I suggest using a screen to show something like this to the player, not some "centered" character that is weird anyway in my opinion. And why did you indent lines after "scene black with fade"?

Would I not still have to find some way to center the text in that case? I'm not sure why using it is bad form in this instance?

[yon]

Instead of a bunch of line breaks, for formatting like this, I'd suggest triple quoted strings
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/dialogue ... logue-mode

I tried doing that, but it keeps giving me issues with indentation, even though it lines up with the rest of the indentation in the label. I tried it at varying distances and all of them gave me errors.

[m_from_space]

Would I not still have to find some way to center the text in that case? I'm not sure why using it is bad form in this instance?

Whenever you are intending to show something to the player multiple times in the same format and it's not dialogue, screens are the way to go. You then can easily call the screen with the given parameters like v_date and v_time and it will show it like you expect.