We have a lovely automatic story formatter created by the wonderful Midori! Please see the below guide for how to use it.
Dividing Chapters[]
Main Story and Character Story chapters are long, so each chapter is posted separately. Lesson Story and Card Story chapters are short, so they are posted together; see Chapter Dividers below.
Examples:
- Main story/Character stories: Separate chapters
- Lesson stories/Card Stories: Chapters together
Story Header[]
Before anything else you should paste Template:Story Header onto the page. For ease of use the code is reproduced here:
{{Story Header
|Title=
|Image=
|Source=
|TranslatorURL=
|TranslatorName=
|Chapter=
}}
Notes:
- Title: The title can be any of the following:
- Event name and chapter # (e.g. HELP! The Wooden Horse Prince's Disaster 1)
- Main story chapter name and # (e.g. An Entrance Ceremony on the Bed 1)
- Special Story: Character Name Birthday/Gacha
- Character Name: Card Name (Rarity)
- Character Name: Event Name Lesson Story
- Character Name: Character story
- Image: The image name should not include .png (e.g. if the image is Image.png, you would just put Image)
- Source: The source of the story. For example, Main Story, Character Story, a specific event or lessons. This will link to the page on the wiki.
- Translator URL: A link to the translator's Twitter, Tumblr, Dreamwidth, etc.
- Translator name: The name of the translator or their website.
- Chapter: formatted as "Chapter #".
Story Body[]
Two Characters Speaking[]
Mark characters with two characters speaking with an ampersand; for example, Takaomi & Senri:. The formatter will set their color to the NPC color.
??? Dialogue[]
If ??? dialogue is spoken by a NPC in-game (marked by the NPC-colored text box in game), make sure the dialogue is labeled as:
- ???:
If the ??? dialogue is spoken by a known character in-game (marked by the character's colored text box in game), edit the translation script so the the dialogue is labeled as:
- Name???:
- ???Name:
- Name ???:
- ??? Name:
The formatter will take all these variations.
Note: Only mark ??? dialogue with a character's name if the game displays the character's color in the text box. If the game doesn't specify the character color, leave the dialogue as ???:. If you're not sure if the character's name is displayed in the game, ask the translator to verify.
Narration[]
Note that most translations do not mark narration in the text, and instead simply italicize it. You will need to manually add "Narration:" to translation scripts. The wiki will automatically italicize narration.
Images[]
Template:Story Image is used for screenshots for context, cgs, change of locations, etc. The image name should not include .png (e.g. if the image is Image.png, you would just put Image).
{{Story Image|
Image=
}}
Location Changes[]
Template:Location is used whenever the story has a scene change, usually in conjunction with an image.
{{Location|
Location=
}}
Chapter Dividers[]
If posting multiple chapters on the same page, divide them with Template:Chapter Divider. The chapter should be formatted as "Chapter #".
{{Chapter Divider|
Chapter=
}}
Usage Example[]
- Chapter 8 of the main story uses every template here except the chapter divider.
- Touji Harimiya Daily Elegant Lesson 1 shows how chapter dividers work.