How do I use the ${text} command on the stats_chart?

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(sorry to make a second post, I needed some help D:)

Here is my stats chart;

Relationships
*stat_chart
percent relaharlan Harlan
percent relanila Nila
percent relaserv ${servant}
percent relaorion Orion

When I use “relaserv”, the servants name varies with the gender of the character.
But when I click index, the name appears as just “${servant}”.

Help? D: thanks!

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I’ve never actually needed to do anything like that (so I hope I’m wrong on this) but, as best I can figure out, it’s not actually possible to do what you’re trying to achieve . . . not with a single *stat_chart anyway.

The problem is, within a *stat_chart you are restricted to using only ‘percent’, ‘text’ or ‘opposed_pair’, so you cannot even use an *if (gender condition) within a single chart, which would at least have allowed for some flexibility.

Your only alternative as far as I can see is to do it as two separate *stat_charts, duplicating all the information contained therein but at least allowing you to hard-code that single name difference within each one, e.g.


*if (gender_female)
    *stat_chart
        percent relaharlan Harlan 
        percent relanila Nila 
        percent relaserv Jill
        percent relaorion Orion

*if (gender_male)
    *stat_chart
        percent relaharlan Harlan 
        percent relanila Nila 
        percent relaserv Jack
        percent relaorion Orion

It doesn’t however help you much if you planned to have many such differences, but it would at least serve for one crucial difference.

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