More text tags?

[xavimat]

I think it would be useful to have more general text tags (http://renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#general-text-tags)
like:

• All caps

• Small caps

• Superindex

• Subindex

What do you think?

[Asceai]

Something I'd like to see even more is custom text tags. Currently you could e.g. have your own say handler and perform (limited) transformational work on the text between your custom tags, but it won't take effect everywhere tags can be used (e.g. on screens) so a more general solution to that would be nice.

[xavimat]

Something I'd like to see even more is custom text tags.

There are, in fact, User-defined Text Tags, but I'm not sure how they work. There are no examples in the doc.
http://renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#use ... -text-tags

[Asceai]

Oh right, I forgot about those.
I think those work like this: {=example_style}Testing{/}
with a style defined somewhere:

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style example_style:
    bold True

They wouldn't work for all caps / small caps unless you have an all caps / small caps font. I don't know if they would even work for subscript/superscript since you can't really add an offset or something to them, so it's pretty limited. I'd say the main use is if you frequently specify a particular set of text styles through tags to show certain things:

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"I held out my right hand, and summoning {i}numen{/i} into the centre of my palm, drew {b}{color=#FF3510}{size=18}{font=fancyfont.ttf}götterdämmerung{/font}{/size}{/color}{/b} from the twilight realm. The ghostly blade materialised in my hand, drinking light and colour from the air surrounding it."

instead, replace it with a style:

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"I held out my right hand, and summoning {i}numen{/i} into the centre of my palm, drew {=aether_key}götterdämmerung{/} from the twilight realm. The ghostly blade materialised in my hand, drinking light and colour from the air surrounding it."