Castlevania II Retranslation Word-Wrap testing tool

Input

Text (use [nl] to express explicit newlines):

1 Left margin size in symbols
16 Dialog box width in cells/symbols, including borders
10 Height of printable area inside dialog box, in lines

Digraphs and ligatures (symbol sequences that have a dedicated single glyph for them in the font):
ij → ĳ
lj → ǉ
.. → ‥
!! → ‼
¡¡ → Ⅱ (correct symbol is not presentable on this page)
fi → ﬁ
ff → ﬀ

Ready

Tip: Comment lines (semicolon) are ignored. You can also copypaste multiple script items at once. Plus-lines separate script items.

Result

╔══════════════╗
║ Is that a,   ║
║ a blue       ║
║ sapphire?    ║
║ I have       ║
║ always       ║
║ wanted one‼  ║
║ Let’s swap.  ║
║ You can      ║
║ have my red  ║
║ ruby instead.║
╚══════════════╝

* No errors or warnings.

Instructions:

In your dialog.txt, you have several different arrays, which define different dialog boxes. This tool concerns with the following type boxes: shop, dialog, clue, gift, possess, priest, and ferryman.

The width of any given box is the length of the string that defines it.
The height of any given box is the number of lines in that box. For example,

 "shop":
 [ 1, "[47]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[49]",
   5, "[4A]              [4A]",
   1, "[4A] ---- [hearts]----   [4A]", // cost
   2, "[4A]              [4A]",
   1, "[4A] Buy   Refuse [4A]", // yes
   1, "[4A]              [4A]", // no
   1, "[4B]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[4C]"
 ],

 "shop":
 [ 1, "[47]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[49]",
   5, "[4A]              [4A]",
   1, "[4A]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[4A]",
   1, "[4A] -     Buy    [4A]", // cost
   1, "[4A]              [4A]",
   1, "[4A] [hearts]---- Refuse [4A]", // hearts
   1, "[4A]              [4A]",
   1, "[4B]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%[4C]"
 ],

Both of these define a dialog box that is 16 cells wide, because there are 16 successive symbols on every line. The bracketed numbers count as single symbols each.
The number before each string specifies how many times the recipe is repeated. In this case, the box height is 1+5+1+2+1+1+1 = 12 lines. However, the printing area inside the box is just 5 lines, so you would select 5 on the form on this page.

The left-margin size is this property in your file, minus one:

 // Index of first text column. Originally 2.  0 = left edge of box.
 "first_textcolumn" : 2

If this property is 1, then the margin is zero. If this property is 2, then the margin is one cell.

To do top-margin, just add a [nl] in the beginning of your string. Explicit newlines are done by adding a [nl]. Plain newlines, leading spaces and trailing spaces will be ignored.

You can freely adjust the shape and appearance of each of these boxes in your dialog.txt. However, it is important that the dialog box widths and heights are both even numbers. The printable area can be even or odd.

For the shop dialog box, the insertor will figure out the layout of the box as follows:

The item symbol is put where the first dash symbol is. However, if there is a dash symbol that is touching the left edge of the box, that line will be ignored for the purposes of finding placement for the item symbol.
The heart count (cost) will be placed right after where the heart symbol is first found. The cost always occupies the next four tiles regardless of their content.
The buy and refuse arrow locations are identified by looking for text. The first two words that it finds are assumed to be “Yes” and “No” respectively. Any subsequential words are ignored. If the two words are on the same line, vertical down-pointing arrows are used; otherwise, horizontal right-pointing arrows are used.