Multi Line Text

Multi Line Text is the least glamorous node in the CSM pack, and also the one you'll touch first. It takes one multiline text widget and passes the string through - stripped of surrounding whitespace - to its text output. That's the whole job. There are no weights, no samples, nothing to tune. If you've used ComfyUI's own text-block conventions from other audio packs, this is the same deal: a place to type a script that isn't a single cramped line.

Why does such a nothing node exist? Because the pack's real workhorse, CSM Dialog Run, declares its text input with forceInput: True. That flag means you can't just type into it in the graph - you have to wire in a string from somewhere. Multi Line Text is that somewhere. It's the friendly multiline widget that CSM Dialog Run's one-line field refuses to be.

The example workflow shipped in the repo wires it up exactly this way: Multi Line Text → CSM Dialog Run. So even though the node looks like filler, it's the on-ramp for every workflow in the pack. The multi_line_prompt input is the only thing you'll ever set, and the text output feeds straight into the dialog node's text port.

Where it shines: writing a two-person script with the [S1] / [S2] format the pack expects, where each line of the widget becomes one spoken line. Where it doesn't shine: nowhere, really - it's a text box. Use it when you want your script visible and editable on the canvas instead of buried in a node's collapsed widget.

One honest note: this node does nothing CSM-specific. If you're already comfortable wiring strings in ComfyUI, it's just a convenience. But it's shipped with the pack, costs nothing, and means you don't need a second custom node just to hold your dialog.

Install and first run

Install is the same as the rest of the pack - see the CSM Dialog Run article for the full walkthrough and the three model downloads it drags along. Short version:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/billwuhao/ComfyUI_CSM.git
cd ComfyUI_CSM
pip install -r requirements.txt

Restart ComfyUI, then find Multi Line Text under the 🎤MW/MW-CSM menu. Type your script, wire text into CSM Dialog Run, and you're off. There's no model load here, so it works instantly even before the big downloads finish.