Request: Punctuation in long description stats

Looks like we won't be able to have long description bullet item entries on separate lines after all, because WorldBuilder nullifies the carriage returns ([enter] in 'the parlance of our times') when it saves description.mes and long_description.mes. We can however have items separated by this symbol, whatever it's called:

Code:

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e.g.

Code:

To Hit Bonus: 0 | Damage: 1d6

which looks a little better and is easier to read.

Can everybody see that? I hope it's not excusive to US keyboards or anything.

 

I'm confused. You had it working above, Gaear: is the problem ToEEWB? In that case, lets just never use it for long_description.mes: Notepad would do just as well anyway?

 

Yeah, it's WB, although I'm not doing the edits to long_description.mes in WB. If you do the carriage return maneuver in Notepad it works fine (as in the pic above), but when WB saves the file, the returns are gone again.

WB's save function in the prototypes tab is universal - automatically saving protos.tab, description.mes, and long_description.mes in order to keep those three files properly aligned (which is a good thing). So you may never make an edit to long_description.mes in WB at all, but it still saves the file anyway when you save proto edits.

So I guess this means you can't use WB for proto-editing if you want to have line-enumerated stats in long_description.mes, or so I assume.

 

ToEE seems to use a square character for carriage returns - did you try using that for the long_description.mes file?

 

I always thought that little square just represented a symbol that was unrecognized or undisplayable in your font or not avaialble on your keyboard. (You see it pop up from time to time in various files that you foreigners edit .)

So I assume the square in ToEE carriage returns is 'unknown symbol.'

Regardless, if it's a carriage return, WB seems to discard it.

 

Mine comes up as a 'male' symobl (circle with spearhead).

I would say, when copying protos.tab and description.mes back from your WB folder to the main game files, don't copy long_description.mes. I'll also check that Python carriage-return thing I mentioned somewhere.

 

Well, but then we're not allowing WB to do its job and keep the three files aligned.

 

How about slashes, like this:

Code:

A rapier is a relatively slender, sharply pointed sword, used mainly for thrusting attacks.  /  To Hit Bonus: 0  /  Damage: 1d6  /  Critical Range: 18-20/x2  /  Damage Type: Piercing  /  Weapon proficiency: Martial, Rapier

Is that a universal symbol?

 

Well, I do need the programming practise: since Ag posted the source code, I might try that. (And adding '1337 C# programmer with many many hours experience!' to the resume doesn't hurt).

Using the Python string things did nothing, btw.

EDIT: And assuming I can't do this, which is a healthy starting point, Gaear's backslash idea looks fine to me.

 

The job is done, with forward slashes. But...now I see on the interweb that not everyone gets forward slashes (/) with the same key. Some may get exclamation points, which would look ridiculous.

What is a universal symbol that we could use to break up the text? Semi-colons would look confusing, since a lot of the descriptions use colons (e.g. Damage: 1d6). I'm skeptical of the bullet, since it's a special character that isn't even on most keyboards.

So ... pound (#)? Asterisk (*)? Dash (-)? What?