02 — Story: writing many lines without repeating yourself

In guide 01 every line began with say. That is fine for a line or two, but a story means writing the same word again and again. A story: block puts every line inside it on the screen exactly as you wrote it.

#Steps

1. Type this into the writing box:

   story:
       The door opened slowly.
       The room was empty.
       One letter lay on the table.
   end
   

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   story: opens the block and end closes it. Indent the lines inside by four spaces. Korean is 이야기: … 끝:

   이야기:
       문이 천천히 열렸습니다.
       방 안은 비어 있었습니다.
       탁자 위에 편지가 한 장 놓여 있었습니다.
   끝
   

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2. A blank line inside the block is a blank line on the screen, so paragraphs need nothing special:

   story:
       It was the first day.
   
       Then the second day came.
   end
   

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3. To have the letters arrive one at a time, put slow in front. It is what guide 03 does to a single line, done to a whole block:

   slow story:
       The wind knocked at the window.
       Nobody answered.
   end
   

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4. Set the speed yourself by naming it:

   slow story every 0.15 seconds:
       One.
       Two.
       Three.
   end
   

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   Korean is 천천히 이야기:, 아주 천천히 이야기:, 0.15초씩 천천히 이야기:.

5. Everything inside the block is text. Nothing in it is a command. If you write wait 3 seconds inside a story, the words wait 3 seconds appear — the program does not wait. For a story that is the right answer, because a character may well say it. To really wait, close the block with end and write it outside:

   story:
       The night was late.
   end
   wait 1 second
   story:
       Then someone knocked.
   end
   

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#Try it

Write a five-line story. Let the first three lines appear at normal speed and the last two arrive letter by letter.

story:
    It was a very old library.
    The books stood at every thickness.
    On the bottom shelf one lay flat.
end
slow story:
    That book had no title.
    Its first line read like this.
end

#What you learned

• story: … end puts every line inside it on the screen as written.
• slow story: sends the letters out one at a time.
• slow story every 0.15 seconds: sets the speed yourself.
• Korean is 이야기: · 천천히 이야기: · 0.15초씩 천천히 이야기:.
• Nothing inside the block is a command. It is all text.