Stupid Question: Silently Macro in Harlowe?

Sharpe

Starting my first Twine 2 game. I'm using the default story format, Harlowe. In my first passage, I would like to set some variables.

For the life of me, my stupid brain can't figure out the equivalent of Sugarcane's <<silently>> macro. I tried using slashes as well.

I tried looking through here, but didn't see anything.

Thanks for the help!

timsamoff

Is just setting variables not working for you…?

(set: $someVariable to "someContent")

Sharpe

It includes white space. That's one of the main purposes of the <<silently>> macro—it removes white space.

For example, this:

(set: $foo to 1)(set: $bar to 1)(set: $bas to 1)(display: "main")

Is different than this:

(set: $foo to 1)
(set: $bar to 1)
(set: $bas to 1)
(display: "main")

Sharpe

Found it. Braces "{}" remove white space.

Though, I'm still not sure how to get rid of the one line of white space after the closing brace . . . Close enough for now.

{
(set: $foo to 1)
(set: $bar to 1)
(set: $bas to 1)
}(display: "main")

Puts in indentation before the contents of the "main" passage.

{
(set: $foo to 1)
(set: $bar to 1)
(set: $bas to 1)
}
(display: "main")

Leaves a line of white space before the contents of the "main" passage.

timsamoff

In Harlowe, white space is ignored if between curly braces:

{
(set: $someVariable to "someContent")
}

timsamoff

(Ha! Totally asynchronous here for some reason.)

Sharpe

Weird.

Still can't get rid of that dang line of white space after the brace! I tried a "nobr" tag on the passage from Twine 1 days, but to no avail.

I guess I'm the only white space OCD Nazi out there. XD

timsamoff

No. I am too (check out Three Dragons). But I use a lot of CSS to fix it.