I have I have been working with the scribe job for a while now and something has always troubled me when writing descriptions that are longer than the text block in NWN.... I always seem to get what looks like a hard return when I dont want one (see image)



As you cam see in the above image I added the text one sentence at a time because the number of characters for the entire paragraph is more than NWN allows you to type at one time. I did this using the "/s ds_j append" command and I get what looks sloppy to me

Does every one else have this problem? Does anyone know a way to fix this?

Just go "/s ds_j append " enter (with an extra space at the end). Then do it again with what you want to say. That's how I do it at least. It takes longer, but it works.

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When scribing I suggest you remain in windowed mode and make a notepad list of what you want to copy in, one line at a time.

WITH the commands added infront. That way you can just copy paste and try to see how it turns out quickly and then easily change it.

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This is exactly what I do... I have a code book written up for the in game book that looks something like this:
Which gives me a space between each sentence... But if I want something that has paragraphs and I change my coding to this:

I get exactly what appeared in the above picture.... with the hard returns after each period. What I want is to get rid of those so I get something that looks like a normal paragraph.

Reading the description of the commands in the job pages, it seems automatic.

Maybe the thing to do is rewrite your book into smaller paragraphs that fit into the text box, rather than doing one sentence at a time.

Yeah, I've seen the same thing. It's because you are doing each sentance seperately, it's like hitting enter between each sentance.

Use the suggestion to copy and paste the entire paragraph at once with word pad, and insert the paragraphs seperately with page breaks inbetween. It works, and it's easier to make all your changes on a word document and then insert it piece by piece onto what you're scribing.

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The trick is to break NWN's chat limiter.


/s ds_j bio This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and now they're stuck forever just because this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and now they're stuck forever just because this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and now they're stuck forever just because this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and now they're stuck forever just because this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and now they're stuck forever just because this is the song that never ends!

How to use the above? Easy.

Copy (CTRL+C) the entire text you want to use, including the /s ds_j bio or append at the front. IE; exactly as you would enter it into the Chat Channel in game. Use the above block of text as a test or example.
Find an empty Quickslot.
Right Click.
Add Chat Macro.
Give it whatever label you want.
When it comes to the command, to EXACTLY this.

Click into the field -once-.
Hit CTRL+V.
Hit the Accept button.

Do not hit enter, or click into the bar again, or try correct it. If you do -anything- but those three steps, it'll chop your text.


Use that trick to do entire paragraphs at once, without silly linebreaks.

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OMG you are so freaking awesome! I am sooooo trying this when I get home tonight. If you are a guy I'll send you hugs and kisses galore... hell prolly if you're a girl too !

*looks down*

Yep. Bloke. Mirha?


Anyway, glad I could help. I used the trick quite alot myself for Eary's artwork.

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add /s for shout channel

ds_j Name ~name here~
ds_j Bio etc etc etc etc
ds_j append "for gaps put nothing here"
ds_j append next line continues here

and copy paste from notepad to save time using windowed mode.

so " /s ds_j [tag] content "

I don't know if copy pasting is cheating the job rank system on scribe but frankly if I have to type a paragraph of text fifteen times again I will be upset with something. thus copy paste. (I typed a bio about twenty times in a row, took me about an hour, and then I learned this method.)

once you have your 'item' written up in notepad in that format all should be rather self explanitory.

ed: I guess I didn't need to go into that much detail, its been covered above. its deffinatly one of the more confusing jobs.

Awesome trick brainy!

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This is a noob question but I can't figure it out on my own. How do you put it in window mode? I have to tab from fullscreen (which sometimes just makes my whole computer crash) to my desktop then to whatever. It really slows down my computer.

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That was incredibly simple. Thanks

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I just wanted to let you all know that brainy's trick worked wonderfully well. I tested it last night and was able to turn out some 4 hours of work inm 15 minutes

Thanks again brainy!