I feel the pain. I'm glad you were able to persevere through such a limited engine to make such a wonderful game, I installed Twine myself and while it seems easy on the surface it for sure is complicated.
If the two snips you mentioned do not work:
- <<if>>
- <<nobr>>
- <</nobr>>
- <</if>>
and
- <<nobr>>
- <<if>>
- <</nobr>>
- <</if>>
Would this one work?
- <<nobr>>
- <<if>>
- <</if>>
- <</nobr>>
I saw you had a reddit, gonna message you on there so we don't clog your games update threads up :)