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First, open up screens.rpy (which is included in all new projects), look for "screen main_menu", add a line like the following in the list of all the other buttons:

textbutton _("About") action ShowMenu("about")

Then, add something like the following anywhere in your project:

screen about:
    tag menu

    window:
        style "gm_root"

    frame:
        style "menu_frame"
        xmargin 10
        ymargin 10
        has side "t c r b"

        label "My visual novel" bottom_margin 10
        viewport id "vp":
            mousewheel True
            has vbox spacing 10

            text "This is my first visual novel, be gentle, thank you. :)"
            text "\
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean \
adipiscing tellus sit amet augue ultrices adipiscing. Suspendisse \
fermentum imperdiet lobortis. Duis non lectus at massa ornare \
tincidunt. Duis ultricies nisi ac elit rhoncus commodo. In nec \
commodo enim. Vivamus luctus rutrum est eget scelerisque. In ligula \
sapien, consectetur et faucibus at, porttitor id dui. Quisque \
aliquam augue faucibus odio ultrices sagittis. Cras odio orci, \
varius sit amet vulputate eleifend, pulvinar ac augue."

        vbar value YScrollValue("vp")
        textbutton "Return to menu":
            action Return()
            top_margin 10

See http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html for more information about screens. If you're adding/removing elements, note that the "side" can be a bit picky; for example, if you remove the label, you need to remove the "t" from the string "t c r b". See http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#side for details.

(See page history for an older version which doesn't use screen language.)

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How to add an "about" item to the main menu