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I am using Yanfly's Status Menu script, found here.  There is a screen for each actor's biography which can, according to the script's header, be changed at any time with a script call.

The section dealing with that possibility reads as follows:

$game_actors[x].description = string# Changes the biography description for actor x to that of the string. Use \n# to designate linebreaks in the string. If you wish to use text codes, write# them in the strings as \\n[2] or \\c[3] to make them work properly.It sounds fairly straightforward - unless you're a scripting idiot like me.  The way I read the instruction is to do an evented script call, substituting the actor'd ID number for where it has" x", and inputting the biographical details where it has "string".

Clearly that's wrong, because no matter what I do, I get an error message beginning:

Script 'Game Interpreter' line 1411: SyntaxError occurred

The next line varies depending on what wording I have in the string.

This happens whether I start the description where the word "string" is, or whether I start a new line.

I do not have a clue what I'm supposed to do.  Can anyone help me?

Thanks.