The Lore

a while back on fedi 🔗, i made a shitpost about adding numbers in front of tone tags to change their weight

after a little bit of feedback, i decided to make a “spec” (because what else am i gonna do, i’m bored, also i’ve never made a spec before i think so)

The Spec

so here’s how it works

a normal tone tag has two parts; the indicator and the tag body normally this is a slash, and a letter or more - like /j or /srs

a weighted tone tag, however, has a third part - the weight

the weight:

• is a number between 0 and 1 (inclusive, but 0 doesn’t make sense and 1 only makes sense if you need a weight there for like regex reasons or something)
• is placed between the indicator and the body
• can be a LaTeX / KaTeX / whatever TeX you use math expression as long as it is wrapped by double dollar signs (because why not)
  • if you use variables, they MUST be italicized to differentiate them from the actual body

Examples

/0.5j (this is /hj but better)

/0.75srs

/0.2s

/$\frac{1}{2}$j (@[email protected] came up with this one - see reply to original post)

/$\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^{1} 0.5n$j (you guessed it, it’s /hj again)

Conclusion

i’m bored and i made a shitpost into a spec, yipee

ideas? shoot me a DM on Discord/Matrix