Line Breaks

[ghazghkull]

Hey I'm just wondering how does one do a line break for this one? I mean I know with HTML you use the <BR> command to make a new line, but how is that done for Ren'Py? Or rather what's the code for Ren'Py?

[Watercolorheart]

{p} adds a linebreak while pausing the line, but I don't know if that's what you want ... I never use it, myself ... (very rarely)

So that

"I saw {p} YOU" becomes:

"I saw"

CLICK

"I saw
YOU"

[NetGenSuperstar]

Type \n to get a line break. So:

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"This is\ndialogue."

will display as:

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This is
dialogue.

[ghazghkull]

Thanks a lot ^^

[phantmoftheomsi]

I tried \n and got an infinite loop.

Is this method for a line break still viable? I noticed this post is 15 years old and the engine may have been updated.

[Inksword]

I tried \n and got an infinite loop.

Is this method for a line break still viable? I noticed this post is 15 years old and the engine may have been updated.

It works for me:

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"Some words.\nA linebreak"

gives me:

You should probably look at the text documentation next time instead of reviving a fifteen year old thread lol.

[AVNSnax]

Sorry for reviving a 16 (!) -year old thread, but "\n" doesn't in fact appear to work inside a custom text tag...I had to resort to a function and ugly syntax to accomplish this.

[neometalero]

Sorry for reviving a 16 (!) -year old thread, but "\n" doesn't in fact appear to work inside a custom text tag...I had to resort to a function and ugly syntax to accomplish this.

It works. Here https://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/FAQ is the official documentation on that
Be sure to write "\n" and not "/n" , and that it is between two blocks of text, not alone.

Here it's an example:

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#Im using a variable since Im displaying this inside a screen
$diaBatRang="All Station, Charlie here. \nThrowing a Stun grenade, everyone in my vicinity cover your eyes and ears."
#You can even add text.
$diaBatRang=diaBatRang+"\nI only have one stun grenade left. We should make it count. Over."

Result in game:

[AVNSnax]

Sorry for reviving a 16 (!) -year old thread, but "\n" doesn't in fact appear to work inside a custom text tag...I had to resort to a function and ugly syntax to accomplish this.

It works. Here https://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/FAQ is the official documentation on that
Be sure to write "\n" and not "/n" , and that it is between two blocks of text, not alone.

Here it's an example:

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#Im using a variable since Im displaying this inside a screen
$diaBatRang="All Station, Charlie here. \nThrowing a Stun grenade, everyone in my vicinity cover your eyes and ears."
#You can even add text.
$diaBatRang=diaBatRang+"\nI only have one stun grenade left. We should make it count. Over."

You didn't read carefully enough. I said "inside a custom text tag." I know it works in normal dialogue.

[Imperf3kt]

Instead of whatever you came up with that you didn't like, have you considered just closing the text tag?

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"words [custom tag]words[/custom tag]\n[custom tag]words[/custom tag]"