On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Liviu Andronic <liv-public@...:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:35:42 +0100, Iwan Gabovitch <qubodup@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for pointing all this out. I committed the original map files and
>> our two level files.
>>
>> Looks great, thanks. Also, I had no idea that we could do this:
> data/maps/labrally/labrally-**bis.level
> data/maps/labrally/labrally.**level
>
> I should go on and clean up all the 'Old Macdonald' variations.
That's a good idea. We can structure it like:
trigger-rally/data/maps/oldmacdonald/
├── colormap.jpg
├── farm-bis.level
├── farm-quinquies.level
├── farm-sex.level
├── foliagemap.png
└── heightmap.png
I have that layout now, to test if it works (it does). Should I commit it?
Well, I was trying to use Roman numerals, indeed, but I botched it. I
> thought it was:
> bis, ter, quater, quinquies, sex
> 2 times, .., 6 times
>
> but it's actually
> bis, ter, quater, quinquies, sexies
>
> (There is a small error in the list [1], but I found source [2] which
> seems cleaner.)
>
> So I should clean this up, too. There is no compelling reason: I was once
> very amused to find out that a friend in France was living on
> 28 quater Rue Salenques
>
> So it wasn't 28, nor 28 bis, not even the strange 28 ter, but it was 28
> quater. Hence I figured, why not use the same scheme for Trigger maps. The
> original map keeps its original name, but all additional variations are
> indexed using Latin numerals.
>
> Cheers
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.orbilat.com/**Languages/Latin/Grammar/Latin-**Numerals.html<http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin/Grammar/Latin-Numerals.html>
> [2] http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/**bis#Latin<http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bis#Latin>
>
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