PONScripter
PONScripter (aka "Proportional-OnScripter") is a special fork of ONScripter, an Open Source clone of NScripter engine for the creation of visual novels. PONScripter is maintained by Peter "Haeleth" Jolly. Like ONScripter, it's based on the SDL library, and can thus be used to play NScripter games on a number of other platforms, from Mac OS X and Linux, althought it's game compatibility has been decreased.
Unlike ONScripter, PONScripter successfully support native UTF-8 encoded script files, and there are no requirements to the nature of the fonts used (they need not be TrueType, Japanese, monospaced, etc.), which makes it possible to translate most of NScripter-based visual novels into any language other than English (for example, Cyrillic text in "normal" ONScripter looks broken and may crash the game when calling Backlog).
Also, PONScripter introduces text style tags, including "bold", "italic", "underline", "striked out", string color changing, size, kerning, etc.
Currently the only known visual novel that uses PONScripter is the English version of Narcissu_Side_2nd.
There are no "official" distributions of PONScripter available for the public access yet.
See also
External links
- Haeleth's ONScripter support site
- English support site for NScripter/ONScripter
- N Scripter website Template:Ja icon
- ONScripter homepage Template:Ja icon
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