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## 1.2 Why it's needed?
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Vinora Screenplay is designed for use in the Vinora Engine. The goals of this
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-visual novels engine is to be as simple and compatible as possible.
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+visual novels engine is to be as simple and compatible as possible.
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Markdown is a popular format. There is a good change that you're already
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familiar with \**italic*\* or \_\___bold__\_\_ syntax. So, by making
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Vinora Screenplay as Markdown-like language we fulfill both of our goals
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## 2.1 Technical definitions
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-**Character** is the smallest unit of text that carries a semantic or
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+**Character**
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+is the smallest unit of text that carries a semantic or
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visual meaning in a writing system. It can be a letter, digit,
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punctuation mark, space, special character (e.g., "@" or newline),
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or another element used to represent information in text form.
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So-called Unicode "combined characters" are considered (and rendered) as
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multiple separate characters*.
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-**Newline characters** are special characters that end a line.
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+**Newline characters**
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+are special characters that end a line.
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Depending of the system, default newline character would be CR (carriage
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return, `\r`), LF (line feed, `\n`) or even both (CR + LF).
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*NOTE: All of them are considered valid end of line, but they are replaced
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with LF (`\n`) character.*
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-**Whitespace characters** are characters which are rendered into whitespace.
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+**Whitespace characters**
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+are characters which are rendered into whitespace.
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They are invisible, but they are affect formatting. For example, space
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character separate different words.
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*All newline characters are whitespace characters*.
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Full list of whitespace characters: *tab (horizontal and vertical), space,
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carriage return, line feed, form feed.*
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-**Line** is a sequence of zero or more characters, that ends with newline
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-or End Of File (EOF) condition. Line which has zero characters or only whitespace
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-characters called **empty line**.
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+**Line**
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+is a sequence of zero or more characters, that ends with newline
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+or End Of File (EOF) condition. Line which has zero characters or only
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+whitespace characters called **empty line**.
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-**ASCII character** is a character supported by
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-[US-ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) encoding. Since any existing
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-encoding is an extension of ASCII, characters from ASCII is
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-supported by every alive computer.
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+**ASCII character**
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+is a character supported by [US-ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII)
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+encoding. Since any existing encoding is an extension of ASCII,
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+characters from ASCII is supported by nearly every computer.
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## 2.2 Visual novels definitions
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