Support narrator breaks in PT-BR in dialogue highlighting

[nyex]

Right now, I can highlight dialogue by indicating that lines beginning with an em dash are dialogue, but there is no way to alternate the highlighting when there is a narrator break in it.

As mentioned in #1773 (comment):

in Brazilian Portuguese we usually do dialogue like this:

— Tudo bem? — ele pergunta. — Você falou com ele?
— Ainda não — ela responde.
— Está ficando tarde.

Italics are narrator breaks.

Also as mentioned, it would be enough if there was a way to simply alternate the highlighting of dialogue on and off for each em dash (the em dash is the "correct" way of doing it, but I don't know if other people use the en dash when writing).

[vkbo]

Ah, thanks for creating a new issue! I will close the duplicate #2065 😄

[vkbo]

Ok. this code seems to work, and is reasonably fast:

        if self._dialogLine and text.startswith(self._dialogLine):
            if self._narratorBreak:
                tPos = 0
                for tNum, tBit in enumerate(text[1:].split(self._narratorBreak), 1):
                    tLen = len(tBit) + 1
                    if tNum%2:
                        self.setFormat(tPos, tLen, self._hStyles["dialog"])
                    tPos += tLen
            else:
                self.setFormat(0, len(text), self._hStyles["dialog"])

It is run in the syntax highlighter before formatting highlighting is added. It changes the default colour of each section according to the split, and applies dialogue colour to the odd numbered entries, and keeps normal text colour for even numbered entries.

I tested on a couple of lines. I set the dialogue symbol to = just to make sure it could handle the distinction.

[vkbo]

It is also possible to apply a dedicated style for the narrator bits. I've tested that here:

This will need more settings in Preferences though. Is it always italic?

[nyex]

This will need more settings in Preferences though. Is it always italic?

Oh the italics was just to mark it for you, we don't use italics like that, no. Sorry i wasn't clear.

[vkbo]

Oh the italics was just to mark it for you, we don't use italics like that, no. Sorry i wasn't clear.

Ah, I see. Then forget that. Although it did make sense to me as a way to make i clearer. 😄