Consistency: spaces around {nl}

[Soukyuu]

Going through the files, I notice that the spaces around {nl} vary from line to line.
For example there are lines where there is no space after the period, but there is a space afterwards, even though that would mean that there will be a space on the new line before the sentence starts. For other sentences, there is a space before and after the {nl}. This is not limited to English files, but also Korean originals.

Is there a rule on that already? I couldn't find one. Personally, I'd want to establish the following rule:

• no space before {nl}: there is no reason to have a trailing space
• no space after {nl}: the first letter should be the first character of a new line, else we waste 1 character per line

An example line: There are some stories about Lydia Schaffen.{nl}According to them, she was quite an oddball.

[vtange]

IIRC, the spaces actually didn't matter when it came to the game reading the lines. {nl}[space]Start of line didn't cause any issues with lines being rendered in game out of place or anything. I literally checked this during my time in iCBT using the real-time-translator.

Right now, I just leave everything as is and not worry about it unless the space is within the brackets. I'd rather work being put in actually translating things instead of worrying about small detail stuff that you can't even see the effect of in-game.

[Soukyuu]

So you're saying the game is stripping the trailing and preceding spaces automatically? If that's the case, then I guess it's a non-issue.

[Soukyuu]

I've seen a couple of lines have different linebreaks when using [space]{nl}, so we should take care to not have a space before the {nl} tag.

[darkmiz]

why do the korean files add {nl} in the beginning and end of some lines?
I believe they are typos, we should just delete them when translating.

example: QUEST_LV_0200_kor.tsv

QUEST_LV_0200_20150317_000056 정말 고맙군.{nl}괜찮다면, 자네의 힘을 좀 더 빌리고 싶네.{nl}
QUEST_LV_0200_20150317_000100 {nl}나도 그럼 이쪽에서 뭐라도 해야겠지.{nl}우선은 붉은 부베 약탈자를 좀 처리해 줘. 거슬리기 짝이 없거든.

[ttgmichael]

Actually, not all lines correspond to a separate dialogue. Some lines from the files are concatenated with another line. Hence, the {nl}'s in front are necessary. They are not typos.

Hope this helps :)

[darkmiz]

I thought one line corresponds to one dialogue box? Can someone confirm this?

[Soukyuu]

There are, in fact, some dialogues that span multiple lines. I don't have an example, but I've worked with a few such lines already.