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The Text Replacement game system parses value tokens and formatting tags. This is used on a several forms like Books and Terminals.

Tokens

Quest-associated books can contain tokens used for Text Replacement if you add a book alias to the quest and set "Uses Stored Text" flag on this alias.

Markup

Some text fields support a variety of Markup tags used with formatting.

Example

<!--This is the example for text markup-->
<font face='$HandwrittenFont' size='35'>Hello World!</font>
<b><i><u>This is bold, italic, and underlined.</u></i></b>
<BR>These are some colors I like.
<ul>
<li>Black</li>
<li>White</li>
<li>Red</li>
<li>Green</li>
<li>Blue</li>
</ul></nowiki>
[pagebreak]
<!--A new page has starts here-->
<p align='center'>My center aligned text.
<p align='left'>My left aligned text.

Syntax

Comment Tag
- Tag: 
- Description: Comments tell the renderer not display the text wrapped within the tags while still retaining the text in the editor.
Bold Tag
- Tag: 
- Description: Text surrounded by bold tags will be bolded.
Italic Tag
- Tag: 
- Description: Text surrounded by italics tags will be italicized.
Underline Tag
- Tag: 
- Description: Text surrounded by underline tags will be underlined.
List Tag
- Tag: <ul><li>ITEM HERE</li></ul>
- Description: Creates list items with an empty square for the icon. Each list item is indented and separated by an empty line.
- Example: <ul><li>Red</li><li>Green</li><li>Blue</li></ul>
Line-Break Tag
- Tag:  
- Description: Breaks the text to the next line. Strictly speaking, this tag isn't necessary. You can just as easily add blank lines to the book text.
Page-Break
- Tag: [pagebreak]
- Description: Breaks to the next page. Must be on its own line. Text automatically breaks to the next page once it reaches the end.
- Note: images do not, so if you notice your images running off the edge of the page, manually place a page-break or reduce the size of your image.
Paragraph Tag
- Tag: 
- Description: Aligns and delineates a block of text as a paragraph.
 - Alignment
 - Tag: 
 - Description: Aligns the surrounded text. Valid values are 'left', 'right', 'justify', 'center'.
 - Note: If you want to place an image within some text so that it wraps around it, the text containing the image needs to be within paragraph tags.
Font Tags
- Tag: 
- Description: Changes the font attributes of the surrounded text.
 - Color
 - Tag: 
 - Description: Changes the font's color.
 - Face
 - Tag: 
 - Description: Changes the typeface of the font. See the fonts section for valid typeface names.
 - Point Size
 - Tag: 
 - Description: Changes the font size. See below for the line lengths you can accommodate using different font sizes.
 - Alpha
 - Tag: 
 - Description: Changes the font's transparency. Two-digit hexadecimal values from '#00' (fully transparent) through '#FF' (fully opaque) are supported.
Image tags
- Tag: <img>
- Description: Places an image on the page.
 - Source Filename
 - Tag: <img src='img://example.dds'>
 - Description: This attribute specifies the filename of the image you want to show up. You need to use the texture path to an image.
 - Note: Make sure the filename begins with img://.
 - Height and Width
 - Tag: <img src='example.dds' height='40' width='40'>
 - Description: Sets the height and width of the image in pixels.
 - Illuminated Letters
 - Tag: <img src='img://Textures/Interface/Books/Illuminated_Letters/X_letter.png'>
 - Description: Used for adding special illuminated letters at the beginning of books. (Replace the "X" with any letter or number.)

Fonts

The fonts displayed in game are stored in a Flash File font library. These font libraries are shared between menus during runtime. The current font configuration can be found in Fallout 4\Data\Interface\FontConfig.txt

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $MAIN_Font
- Font Family: Roboto Condensed
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $MAIN_Font_Bold
- Font Family: Roboto Condensed
- Font Style: Bold

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $HandwrittenFont
- Font Family: Handwritten_Institute
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $BRODY
- Font Family: "Brody"
- Font Style: Bold

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $Terminal_Font
- Font Family: Share-TechMono
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $Controller_Buttons
- Font Family: Controller Buttons
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_en.swf
- Symbol: $Controller_Buttons_inverted
- Font Family: Controller Buttons inverted
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_console.swf
- Symbol: $ConsoleFont
- Font Family: Arial
- Font Style: Normal

Library:Interface\fonts_console.swf
- Symbol: $DebugTextFont
- Font Family: Consolas
- Font Style: Normal

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