Thread:NeryNight/@comment-3452092-20180418015626

Hi. I am a fellow user who is passionate about getting the walkthroughs on this site up and running, which most of them are for the most part now (there were three or four when I started working on them) so now with most part what is needing is formatting, which you are working on hard on. There are a couple things I would like to discuss with you about that. You have been making some changes to the formatting which I understand is hard to be sure of, since I don't think any of them are perfectly formatted. Since I don't want to be at cross purposes with another user, especially not one who is doing such a great job of working on formatting, I thought I should contact you.

I have discussed a lot of this with one of our admins here, Fearless Diva, so if you think we should make some changes to things she has okayed, we should ask for her input on them. It might be that she likes what you are doing better and it might not.

First thing is, we are trying to limit the emphasis text (bold and italics) as much as we can so that when we do it sticks out. Bold is pretty much reserved for the headlines for individual choices Choice 1, Choice 2, etc. We experimented with using it for correct answers, but decided that it was too much bold, so I've been slowly going through and stripping the word "Correct" of its bolding.

The same goes for italics except it is used two places. One is any comments or messages between choices such as explanations of what happens if you successfully negotiate a series of choices or you fail to negotiate them properly. The other is if the name of a character can be chosen by the user. Since you have done a lot of work on Rules of Engagement this means if you see the names: Katie, Alex, Nicole, Jess, Dean, William, Leo, Trent, Violet, or Mallory they should in italics, but if you see other names such as Carter, Audrey, Paolo, and Blake they should not be in italics unless they are part of one of the messages between the comments. In comments between messages names that should be in italics should be the only thing not in italics. They should always be the reverse of the text around them except for the first time they are mentioned when there is a message saying what the default name is.

The information following the options under the choices should not be in italics with the excepts of names in the manner listed above. They should be in parenthesis and only that. This is in an effort to keep the pages easier to read.

As I said I really do appreciate what you are doing, so I wanted to mention a few things I am happy to see. One of the newer things we are doing is including the changes in point of view character and in order to make them stand out without using too much bolding or italics where they would probably just be drowned out anyway, I made the templates you found and used them instead. I'm happy to see you using them since I didn't get very far in putting them in walkthroughs as of yet. I only have made some for two of the series so far: Rules of Engagement and #LoveHacks.

I also noticed that you are flipping around places where multiple effects are listed after an option so that (No effect) is always listed first. Thanks for that. It's nice to have consistency and it gives a little bit of a barrier between the actual option and the effect (or lack thereof) in cases when it's the correct choice but it still doesn't effect anything besides the immediate dialogue. The same goes for places where there is an "Achievement" resulting from an option you pick and it's the correct choice. Thank you for noticing that and working on fixing those. 