nt.DrawText(mylifestory, 0, 0, width = 160, maxlines = 10,\
                           flags = DF_WRAP_ELLIPSIS)</pre>

<p>Some life stories are shorter than others, but you'd probably see your text
cut off on the 10th line with an ellipsis after it. If you wanted to show the
rest of it later, and need to know where you left off, send a list (it must
already be initialized) to the proc as <tt>leftover</tt>.</p>

<pre>var/list/nexttext = new
var/icon/I = font.DrawText(mylifestory, 0, 0, width = 160, maxlines