Need help with a text issue

Hello, you might remember me from http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/18072-mlp-shadows-of-dark-equestria/ but you probably don't...anyways that sorta died out as getting help didn't work out (well someone did helped but later quited for their own game) so after a long time I revived it in VX Ace thanks to a friend. It works pretty well and seems more easy to use in terms of making maps, but I have one problem....

You see for some reason when I add text for the characters to say the symbol ' adds a empty space, like "shouldn't" becomes "shouldn 't" and as the lines goes outside the textbox this is a issue...as it makes the text unappealing and it often makes that row of text go outside the box (which I can fix but moving the words down a space). So the reason I returned here is to ask, is there a way to stop making ' add a empty space and turning words like "can't" to "can 't"?

What scripts are you using?


Because in default, there is no added space in "can't", I just tested that - it has to be a problem from one of your scripts.

It could also be the font. Are you using a different font?

Also, are you typing your text in a Word program and copying it over to the maker?

I don't know? There's a scripte where \| pauses the text before the rest appears?

I don't use a different font? And yeah kinda. ^^; See this time I wrote the story as a script, but I think I deleted the ' and readded it a couple times.

To resolve the text going off the window, and eliminating the need to do spaces, you can use a Text-Wrap script.

The drawback to this is that you won't see how it looks in the preview.

There should be several in the scripts section, here: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/73-vxace-master-script-list/

If it's making spaces for apostrophes every time you make a contraction (like if you test it right now), it could be the script you're using already.

I would need to see a tut on scripts first tho, I don't wanna remove the wrong script and make the program buggy/unusable.

Some word documents replace the apostrophe with a symbol that looks similar, but is coded differently (and thus is read differently by the program). So, try just typing straight into the text box and see if the space issue happens.

The majority of the scripts available are plug-and-play so you should be fine.

That appears to have worked, wonder why the program does that?

It gets replaced for visual appeal - so the text in the Word document looks better. :)

I don't get it...XD Aw well just more work I suppose. You wouldn't know how to use the tint command (you know the command to make the screen turn a certain colr?) on a character would you?

This is a text-formatting process called kerning -- controlling the positioning and spacing of characters in a variable-width-characters font. It's what handles differences between an 'i' and an 'm' when typed and positioned in a document, on a screen, et cetera. In a word processor, this step is so automatic, you likely haven't even heard the term kerning, or thought of the space between characters in a long time.

But that is certainly odd.... I would have thought copied text would only be maintained as "plain text" without word-processor/font properties.

That is because what happened isn't only kerning - some steps replace letters with different letters.
One other example (that's more easily visible in most word processors) is ".


Write a complete sentence or even a single word in " like "Hello", and a lot of word processors automatically replace it with „Hello“.


I don't even know how to get „ manually on a keyboard as that letter is not regularly used.


And that exchanging of the first " is a replacement, and something similiar happend with the ' in the case mentioned above.

Does it matter I'm using Godocs (Google Docs) to write the script and copy and paste from it? Even if it's saved to my PC as a text file?

No telling for sure what goes on behind the scenes, unless you are able to submit an issue or ask for Google help. I assume it's possible and even probable; word processors being what they are, online or not, and I would assume Google Docs would try to implement as much as possible to make it the equal of an offline wp.


Er, more simply put, it's somewhere between, "I dunno, go ask the developers" and "I assume so, because X and Y".