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+====== Text (DED) ======
+Defines a text string.
+Do not change the order of existing Text definitions; always add new
+definitions to the end of the list. This is because Games access strings
+using the index numbers of the strings, and the indices are assigned based
+on the order of the Text definitions.
+  Text
+  {
+     ID = "DD_STRNG";
+     Text = "Example string";
+  }
+===== Syntax =====
+==== ID ====
+Identifier of the text string.
+==== Text ====
+The string itself. Backslash (\) is used as an escape
+character: \n = newline. Quotes (") must be escaped or the
+parser will think the string ends ("Say \"Hello!\""). The
+string can be divided onto multiple lines, in which case the
+parser will skip to the first non-space character of the
+next line when it encounters an end of line. For example
+the following two strings are identical:
+  "This is a long
+     string?"
+  "This is a longstring?"
+The escape sequence ''\_'' translates to a normal space
+character, so these two strings are also identical:
+  "This is another long
+      \_string."
+  "This is another long string."

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