Typography Style Guide - Revision history

Gothyoba: /* Sound Effects */

2025-02-19T22:34:58Z

‎Sound Effects

Gothyoba: Update to allow !!!

2025-02-19T22:31:10Z

Update to allow !!!

Soliton: /* Quotes in Speech */ Use the right quotes

2024-09-14T17:00:58Z

‎Quotes in Speech: Use the right quotes

Octalot: /* Race names */ New section with the capitalisation rules

2023-06-14T06:04:06Z

‎Race names: New section with the capitalisation rules

Earl Khonrad: /* Usages in Speech */ cleaning up wrong formating

2019-06-21T00:48:59Z

‎Usages in Speech: cleaning up wrong formating

Ty Bonzer: /* Typography Style Guide */

2019-03-12T08:45:08Z

‎Typography Style Guide

Iceiceice at 16:31, 7 April 2014

2014-04-07T16:31:03Z

Iceiceice at 16:30, 7 April 2014

2014-04-07T16:30:39Z

Iceiceice at 04:15, 7 April 2014

2014-04-07T04:15:23Z

Espreon at 22:44, 30 November 2010

2010-11-30T22:44:42Z

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 'Sound effects' includes maniacal laughter, characters' death noises &ndash; usually variations on the theme of 'Argh!' and other non-words. The main guideline is to tone these down somewhat; don't use 'Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!!!', be content with 'AAaargh!'. Maniacal laughter, no matter how maniacal, should only have 3&ndash;4 HAs in it, and never more than about 5. 'HAHAHAHA!' will usually be quite sufficient. Feel free to use 'Hmm' or 'Hmmm', but not 'Hmmmmm' or more. As a rough rule of thumb, restrict yourself to a maximum of about 10 letters for random exclamations, and normally 5&ndash;7.
-Similarly, do not use multiple exclamation or question marks. The following combinations are acceptable: !, ?, !?, ?!, ??, !!, !!! but four or more marks really are not. Three are only acceptable for exclamation marks. Incidentally, an exclaimed question would be punctuated with ?!, whereas an incredulous statement would be punctuated with !?.
+Similarly, do not use multiple exclamation or question marks. The following combinations are acceptable: !, ?, !?, ?!, ??, !!, !!! but four or more marks really are not. Three are only acceptable for exclamation marks and should be used sparingly. Incidentally, an exclaimed question would be punctuated with ?!, whereas an incredulous statement would be punctuated with !?.
 Don't forget that you can still use &lt;big&gt;, &lt;b&gt; and &lt;i&gt; tags, or use some sort of WML special effect such as the {EARTHQUAKE}, {FLASH_ } or {LIGHTNING_ } macros, possibly with sound or a custom portrait. I would encourage these methods, rather than trying to convey the same thing with nothing more than the keyboard auto-repeat to help you.

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 'Sound effects' includes maniacal laughter, characters' death noises &ndash; usually variations on the theme of 'Argh!' and other non-words. The main guideline is to tone these down somewhat; don't use 'Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!!!', be content with 'AAaargh!'. Maniacal laughter, no matter how maniacal, should only have 3&ndash;4 HAs in it, and never more than about 5. 'HAHAHAHA!' will usually be quite sufficient. Feel free to use 'Hmm' or 'Hmmm', but not 'Hmmmmm' or more. As a rough rule of thumb, restrict yourself to a maximum of about 10 letters for random exclamations, and normally 5&ndash;7.
-Similarly, do not use multiple exclamation or question marks. The following combinations are acceptable: !, ?, !?, ?!, ??, !!, but three or more marks really are not. Incidentally, an exclaimed question would be punctuated with ?!, whereas an incredulous statement would be punctuated with !?.
+Similarly, do not use multiple exclamation or question marks. The following combinations are acceptable: !, ?, !?, ?!, ??, !!, !!! but four or more marks really are not. Three are only acceptable for exclamation marks. Incidentally, an exclaimed question would be punctuated with ?!, whereas an incredulous statement would be punctuated with !?.
 Don't forget that you can still use &lt;big&gt;, &lt;b&gt; and &lt;i&gt; tags, or use some sort of WML special effect such as the {EARTHQUAKE}, {FLASH_ } or {LIGHTNING_ } macros, possibly with sound or a custom portrait. I would encourage these methods, rather than trying to convey the same thing with nothing more than the keyboard auto-repeat to help you.

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   "Who is this &#x2018;Mal-Ravanal&#x2019; fellow?"
-  "Calm down, soldier!  Who is this 'they' you are speaking of?"
+  "Calm down, soldier!  Who is this &#x2018;they&#x2019; you are speaking of?"
 When a character is reporting someone else's exact words, this is a rare occasion when double quotes would be used:

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   ''Chantal cautiously opens the box.''
   (usually present tense)
 [[Category:Campaigns_-_Development]]

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   (in this case, speech treated as fading because the ''listener's'' attention has wandered)
-=Usages in Speech=
+==Usages in Speech==
 As far as this style guide is concerned, 'Speech' pretty much exclusively means in the campaign dialogue stored in Wesnoth's .cfg files. Usages in the online help, the user guide, the game's user interface and so on are separate (but related) matters.

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	This style guide describes how character dialogue within campaigns should be marked up. For dialogue within the Wesnoth game user interface, see the [[UI Style Guide]]. For C coding guidelines, see the [[CodingStandards]]. For WML coding, see the [[WML Style Guide]]. For a general writing style guide for Wesnoth campaigns, see esr's Campaign Design How-To, http://www.catb.org/~esr/wesnoth/campaign-design-howto.html This guide covers storyboarding, plotting and adding flavour, as well as advice on map design, balance, and some of the pitfalls to avoid.		This style guide describes how character dialogue within campaigns should be marked up. For dialogue within the Wesnoth game user interface, see the [[UI Style Guide]]. For C coding guidelines, see the [[CodingStandards]]. For WML coding, see the [[WML Style Guide]]. For a general writing style guide for Wesnoth campaigns, see esr's Campaign Design How-To, http://www.catb.org/~esr/wesnoth/campaign-design-howto.html This guide covers storyboarding, plotting and adding flavour, as well as advice on map design, balance, and some of the pitfalls to avoid.

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−	[[Category:~~Campaign_~~-_Development]]	+	[[Category:Campaigns_-_Development]]

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−	[[Category:~~Development~~]]	+	[[Category:Campaign_-_Development]]

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	(usually present tense)		(usually present tense)
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		+	[[Category:Development]]

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   hyphen-minus            -     replace with U+2013, U+2014, U+2015, U+2212 as appropriate
   straight apostrophe     '     same character as single quote, replace with U+2019
-  unsexed single quote    '     same character as straight apostrophe, replace with U+2019
+  unsexed single quote    '     same character as straight apostrophe, replace with U+2018 and U+2019 as appropriate
   backquote               `     shouldn't be present anywhere, replace with U+2018
   unsexed double quote    "     replace with U+201C, U+201D as appropriate