# New features in ChoiceScript: change text size/color, hyphen spacing, @{} variable replacement

**URL:** <https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/new-features-in-choicescript-change-text-size-color-hyphen-spacing-variable-replacement/26217>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** choicescript-updates\
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/new-features-in-choicescript-change-text-size-color-hyphen-spacing-variable-replacement/26217 "2017-05-01T04:01:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Minnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed655f/32.png) [@Minnow](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/u/Minnow)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/new-features-in-choicescript-change-text-size-color-hyphen-spacing-variable-replacement/26217/57 "2017-11-22T21:28:59Z")

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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but if you set a character’s `gender` variable as numeric instead of a string, you can simplify plural-variant verbs for “they/them” pronouns. For example:

```
*fake_choice
	#Non-binary.
		*set gender 1
		*set they "they"
	#Female.
		*set gender 2
		*set they "she"
	#Male.
		*set gender 3
		*set they "he"

```

Then you can insert things like `@{gender teach|teaches|teaches}` or `@{gender go|goes|goes}` inline instead of breaking your sentences apart to use structures things like:

```
*if gender = "non-binary"
	teach
*if gender != "non-binary"
	teaches

*if gender = "non-binary"
	go
*if gender != "non-binary"
	goes

```

And you can use that in conjunction with (or instead of) pronoun variables:

```
$!{they} @{gender go|goes|goes} to the market every Saturday morning.
@{gender They go|She goes|He goes} to the market every Saturday morning.

```

Edit: You can leave an option within the multireplace blank as well. So you could also do:

`$!{they} go@{gender |es|es} to the market every Saturday morning.`

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