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The 1.06 patch let's us modify more of a newspaper.
From the Readme:

You can override a newspaper's tertiary headline, title, price, and/or date by setting the event's message type temporarily to 'Choice' and filling in choices 1-4 respectively. If a field is blank, the newspaper will default to its original behavior for that field.

When using this method the main thing is to make sure to set type to Newspaper in the end.

Here's all you never needed to know about limits:
1st Choice: Tertiary headline/Boxed story (80 character limit for entry)
2nd Choice: Title : this displays as capitals (14 character limit before truncating)
3rd Choice: Price (16* lowercase characters before truncating)
4th Choice: Date (25* lowercase characters before truncating)

* Lowercase alphabetical string of: abc.........

As a reference, compare the normal Newspaper Fields (200 character entry limit)
#1 Main Headline : Two lines possible before visually pushing tip of story box off the screen
Each line can hold 33* lower case characters, or 23 "w"'s, or 13 "W"'s per line before overflowing onto a new line.

#2 Main Story : Seven lines are possible with a two-line headline before running off the page, but not aesthetic
Each line can hold 53 "space" characters, 27* lower case characters, 18 "w"'s, or 14 "W"'s per line before overflowing onto a new line.

"Line feeds" : Ctrl+Enter; can be used before or after the Main Story to position as desired.

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That's pretty cool. I didn't know about that.

Good. now I can rewrite the event about the lions that killed 135 railway laborers! The way it is written it sounds like two lions killed 135 guys at the same time.

Them lions is hungry critters.

RulerofRails wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:07 amAs a reference, compare the normal Newspaper Fields (200 character entry limit)
#1 Main Headline : Two lines possible before visually pushing tip of story box off the screen
Each line can hold 33* lower case characters, or 23 "w"'s, or 13 "W"'s per line before overflowing onto a new line.

#2 Main Story : Seven lines are possible with a two-line headline before running off the page, but not aesthetic
Each line can hold 53 "space" characters, 27* lower case characters, 18 "w"'s, or 14 "W"'s per line before overflowing onto a new line.

TBH I wasn't sure what you meant by all this, so rather than ask I figured I'd try it out. This is the result for a standard newspaper.
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Interesting. When I tested it the single border line around the box started to run off the page with more than 2 lines. Now when I try it again, it's fine, as it is for you here.

Probably should have added that the number of lines in the Main Headline (#1), affects how many you can use for the Main Story (#2).

Gumboots wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:55 pm Them lions is hungry critters.

I finally read the poorly written Wikipedia article about the Tsavo man eaters.The more logical number was about 30 men were victims. Makes me wonder how many men lions killl in a regular year.

Don't lions kill women too?

Men kill lions too. Frankly a shortage of lions is more of a worry than a shortage of men at the moment, as long as you aren't lunch of course.

Wolverine@MSU wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:42 am Don't lions kill women too?

Have you seen a women work with track gang before?