Text Editing

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Unknown2006-02-17 19:49:57
Okay, there are some ghelp files I want to fix up, such as this:

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Highmagic
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Pentagram         The basic ritual protects you from most attacks.
Malkuth            Root yourself in the Sphere of the earth.
Void Cosmic emptiness from which returns all emanations.
Yesod               Conceal yourself with the Sphere of Unseen.
Netzach Enhance charisma under the Sphere of the Beautiful One.
Hod                 The Sphere of the Powerful Mind will clear thoughts.


but I want them all to have a column of space between the name and description, like how it is in the AB files, though it won't let me. I've tried all sorts of strange combinations and deleting/spacing techniques... does anyone know why this happens and how to make the words all neat and tidy? Thanks
Soll2006-02-17 19:57:25
Code brackers show spaces. I've never been able to get an IRE MUD to accept multiple spaces. It annoys the nuts off of me when trying to indent paragraphs in posts.
Vix2006-02-17 19:59:29
Yeah, and spacing in help files is messed up. Not sure how it works, but whenever I try to edit helpfiles it puts in a bunch of extra spaces like I pressed enter after almost every line. The help files on Aetherships were (are?) still messed up like that with weird spaces in places.
Vesar2006-02-17 20:00:00
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Highmagic
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Pentagram----------The basic ritual protects you from most attacks.
Malkuth--------------Root yourself in the Sphere of the earth.
Void------------------Cosmic emptiness from which returns all emanations.
Yesod----------------Conceal yourself with the Sphere of Unseen.
Netzach--------------Enhance charisma under the Sphere of the Beautiful One.
Hod------------------The Sphere of the Powerful Mind will clear thoughts.


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Unknown2006-02-17 21:20:47
Well, most of the scroll was fine, just some parts are messed up. It's also easy to indent things like the title, but after that the body paragraphs are just scary. There must be a way to do it! If worse comes to worse I'll just use the dash/dot-technique then.
Acrune2006-02-17 22:19:15
Have you tried doing it on nexus? The voices are telling me that I was pleased with the spacing in editing ghelp files with java, but I've only done it once so its hard to say if the voices are lying.
Athana2006-02-17 22:27:04
This really annoys me because I can't make spaces between lines with the composer in zmud so whenever I want to edit a project or a helpfile I have to switch to the old javaclient thingy, that composer is awesome because I can space, indent, use semicolons, and all that fun stuff! <3 It still really bugs to lose all my defs and have to log out and in again though grr

{EDIT} And the old one is at lusternia.com/javaclientplain.html if you want to use it
Aiakon2006-02-18 00:37:33
I do all my playing on ZMUD and all my editing on nexus. Soooo much easier that way... I keep my deffs by not logging out of ZMUD and auto-DCing myself by logging in on Nexus (and the other way round when I want to go back). Works fine...
Unknown2006-02-18 02:13:50
Whenever I need to enter commands into the editor with spacing, I have to turn off Parsing in Zmud (that little computer icon to the right of where you type commands). Otherwise it condenses groups of spaces together.
Athana2006-02-18 02:15:32
QUOTE(Avaer @ Feb 17 2006, 06:13 PM) 259613

Whenever I need to enter commands into the editor with spacing, I have to turn off Parsing in Zmud (that little computer icon to the right of where you type commands). Otherwise it condenses groups of spaces together.


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Unknown2006-02-18 02:16:40
QUOTE(Athana @ Feb 18 2006, 02:15 AM) 259614

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Oh, don't... it took me like 6 months before I realized why it wasn't working. tongue.gif
Shiri2006-02-18 10:44:26
Huh. Whenever I try to indent, even in the Nexus window thing, it only puts in the one damn space. dry.gif
Shorlen2006-02-18 10:52:59
Okay, something many people (including some Divine dry.gif) don't know is that if you let Rapture wrap a line for you, it'll delete all duplicate spaces itself. When you write stuff in Notepad (or whatever you use), set the window size to 72 characters long (I think that's the standard wrap length) and hit the enter key at the end of each line rather than using the built-in word wrapping. My High Magic list, for instance, looks like this:

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Highmagic

Pentagram     Inept        0%  Immune to most harm until broken
Malkuth       Novice       0%  Increase summoning resistance
Void          Apprentice   0%  Break circles and pentagrams
Yesod                          Shroud self
Netzach                        ?P: Enhance CHA (?)
Hod            The Sphere of the Powerful Mind will clear thoughts.
Tipheret                       Remove all bindings
Hexagram                       Knock ENEMYs from trees/sky*
Geburah                        ?P: Enhance STR (?)
Gedulah    The Sphere of the Merciful Hand shall ease your suffering.
Binah                          ?P: Lower target's CON (?)
Chockmah                       See ghosts and dreambodies
Kether                         Attack ghosts and dreambodies
Greatpentagra Transcendant 0%  10P: Keep all from leaving room

* The more enemies of yours in the trees/sky, the less the chance of
     hitting each one with Hexagram. Hexagram ignores shields.

Notes on skillset incomplete


And looks perfectly fine in Lusternia.