# HG changeset patch
# User Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
# Date 1274106412 -10800
# Node ID ce95fd596812b0544caa6303bca30edcfc76404e
# Parent  fa4c52109fd8c70905f95747c4a4a327feb9826e
About strings in NSIS.

diff -r fa4c52109fd8 -r ce95fd596812 nsis.rst
--- a/nsis.rst	Mon May 17 17:21:21 2010 +0300
+++ b/nsis.rst	Mon May 17 17:26:52 2010 +0300
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
 -*- mode: outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-* String.
+* Strings.
+
+String is a sequence of chars. To represent spaces enclose string in quotes.
+To escape quote use $\. ${MACRO_NAME}, $(VAR_NAME) substituted with
+macros/variable values. To escape $ use $$.
+
+  MessageBox MB_OK "I'll be happy" ; this one puts a ' inside a string
+  MessageBox MB_OK 'And he said to me "Hi there!"' ; this one puts a " inside a string
+  MessageBox MB_OK `And he said to me "I'll be happy!"` ; this one puts both ' and "s inside a string
+  MessageBox MB_OK "$\"A quote from a wise man$\" said the wise man" ; this one shows escaping of quotes
 
 * Variables.
 
 Allowed chaacters for variable names: [a-z][A-Z][0-9] and '_'.
 
-** Macros definition.
-
-To define macro variable:
-
-  !define NAME "STRING"
-
-To access to there value use such syntax:
-
-  ${NAME}
-
 ** Variable definition.
 
 To declare variable:
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
 
 To assign value to variable use:
 
-  StrCpy $NAME "STRING"
+  StrCpy $NAME STRING
 
 To access to there value use such syntax:
 
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@
 
 To declare multilingual string use:
 
-  LangString NAME LANGUAGE_ID "STRING"
+  LangString NAME LANGUAGE_ID STRING
 
 For 'LANGUAGE_ID' use '${LANG_ENGLISH}', '${LANG_RUSSIAN}', etc.
 
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@
 
   $(NAME)
 
-** Standard language strings.
+*** Standard language strings.
 
 You can see list of such var under Contrib\Language Files\*.nlf files, which
 loaded by 'LoadLanguageFile'.
@@ -55,3 +54,13 @@
 To access to there value use such syntax:
 
   $(^NAME)
+
+** Macros definition.
+
+To define macro variable:
+
+  !define NAME STRING
+
+To access to there value use such syntax:
+
+  ${NAME}