Paragraphs in Mod Descriptions

Barathor

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Currently, in order to make a mod description more readable within the game, I've been going thru my text and using [NEWLINE][NEWLINE] at the end of lines of text or paragraphs. Not only that, but I've been clumping the entire lines of text together in a string (xxxx[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]xxxxxx[NEWLINE][NEWLINE]xxxxx) to avoid ugly indents at the beginning of each new line.

Even worse, when I then upload the mod to the Steam Workshop and copy the description to the Workshop page, I have to go thru the entire thing again and hit a bunch of Enters and delete every instance of [NEWLINE][NEWLINE].

It's also inconvenient when I have to make edits to the text that I already "converted" using [NEWLINE][NEWLINE].

This really stinks; there's got to be an easier way to do this. Am I missing something? :D
 
I ended up redoing some of mine from within modbuddy, as after doing so once they were uploaded to the Workshop appeared to cause issues.

It's either a case of look bad in the Workshop, or in the game... Unless I'm also missing something :cry:
 
I ended up redoing some of mine from within modbuddy, as after doing so once they were uploaded to the Workshop appeared to cause issues.

It's either a case of look bad in the Workshop, or in the game... Unless I'm also missing something :cry:

TELL me about it! I usually write long, detailed descriptions of what my mods do (and if the description includes an update list, it's even longer). Deleting [NEWLINE], [ICON], and [COLOR/ENDCOLOR] tags from the in-game text is the shortest way to keep the same detailed description on the mod's Workshop page. Ugly, but true! :sad:

What I've ended up doing is editing the tagless version in a separate plain-text file first, then pasting the result into the Workshop's description space once it looks passable. That takes a bit more work, but the result is worth it!
 
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