Automatic Line Breaking

This page lists the procedure of OrganiseLines in other languageid then Japanese (in that language, the input string is returned with nothing on it).

Replace functions

The input string is set to the return of ReplaceFunctions. This is where there is some look ahead and preprocessing of the string, but only sstring and menu are supported. Check the documentation of either commands to learn more.

Char Loop

This is the heart of the auto line breaker. For each char in the input string:

• Pseudo switch on the char (skip every LF):
  • |:
    • For next, blank or any commands with line in it (except if paused with unpauseline and when a Shopkeeper isn't in the interact range of the player for a shopline):
      • Act as if a was processed, but without adding a space width to the line accumulator.
    • For button:
      • Add 0.7 to the line accumulator. Add another 0.7 if the keyboard input text is not empty and it doesn't have Arrow. Reset the word accumulator to 0.
    • For any commands with size (except battlesize) where the first param isn't multi:
      • Change the size to the x size parameter of the command
    • For singlebreak:
      • Enable single break mode and set the maxoffset to the one sent in parameter of the command. If languageid is 6 (Russian), the maxoffset gets multiplied by 1.15
  • :
    • Add 0.3 * size to the line accumulator width (0.3 is the width of a space gap)
    • If the line accumulator width + the word accumulator width exceeds maxoffset
      • Add an LF or a line command if singlebreak was seen to the result string
      • Set the line accumulator width to the start of the line:
        • If languageid is English, unless map.englishbreakfix is true AND the message lock is grabbed, this is 0 which is broken (more details here)
        • Otherwise, this is the word accumulator which is only slightly wrong as it is missing a space gap (more details here)
      • Otherwise
        • Add the word accumulator width to the line accumulator width
      • Append the accumulated word and a space to the result string
      • Reset the current word to empty and current word accumulator width to 0
    • Anything else:
      • Add the width of the char to the current word accumulator width and add the char to the current word. The width is floor(offset * 25.0) / 25.0. This width is multiplied by 0.975 if in single break mode
• if the last line accumulator width + the last word accumulator width exceeds maxoffset
  • Add an LF at the end of the result string
• if singlebreak has been seen in the string:
  • Normalize every LF and every double line to be single line commands without parameters
• Return the result string