Problems with text alignment in say box

[RewindTheGame]

I'm just cleaning up my game for release, and would like to centre align the text on the say screen. With my basic knowledge of Python, I had imagined I could do something like this:

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text "f{what : ^82} id "what" pos(450,140)

but this just complains about the what string not being identical to blah blah and I still don't understand that error message. Who cares if it's not identical - just do what I ask you already, RenPy

Anyway, I've got the text centred by doing this:

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text what id what pos(450,140) xalign 0.6

but this seems to ignore the position element and just aligns the text with the centre of the screen. If the string is long enough, it overlays the side image of the sayer on the left of the screen. What I want is to align the text within a box. The box would extend from the right side of the side image to the right side of the screen.

Any help would be appreciated, because although my game works and the text is displayed, I feel that it's messy and looks strange when somebody just says two words and they appear left aligned flush against the side image with a massive blank space to the right.

[plastiekk]

I'm just cleaning up my game for release, and would like to centre align the text on the say screen. With my basic knowledge of Python, I had imagined I could do something like this:

You can either try it with the styles (which doesn't work for me for some reason) or define your characters with what_xalign=0.5:

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define sv = Character ("Sven", what_xalign=0.5)

[RewindTheGame]

Thank you. So simple. As you can imagine, I achieved this through the most convoluted method - on the other hand, it's now coming in useful elsewhere

[plastiekk]

Thank you. So simple. As you can imagine, I achieved this through the most convoluted method - on the other hand, it's now coming in useful elsewhere

I hear you, I tried it myself for a while. I think it's because of the lack of examples in the documentation, because who would get the idea on their own that there is a what_xalign method?
But that's what this forum is for