[Pcgen-trackers] [ pcgen-Feature Requests-1223148 ] Spell names with commas in stat blocks

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Feature Requests item #1223148, was opened at 2005-06-18 08:28
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Category: Code Related (Add/Del/Improve)
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Submitted By: Paul W. King (kingpaul)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Spell names with commas in stat blocks

Initial Comment:
Per http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/message/86104

The current way things are implemented, when the WotC
statblock is used, spells are separated by commas, and
may also have commas themselves.

E.g.: Level 4: Invisibility, Greater, Globe of
Invulnerability, Lesser

The names output should be in line with how WotC does
it, and lower case:

Level 4: greater invisibility, lesser globe of
invulnerability

Andargor

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Per http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/message/86107

I see two possibilities.

1) A second PCC that .MOD's spell names to new
OUTPUTNAME to the non-comma format. Simple dataset,
easy to script, probably, and easy to determine based
on if it is loaded or not.

2) Code FReq to enhance OUTPUTNAME. We are basically
looking at a format like <X><,space><Y> going to
<Y><space><X>. A preference to change which format is
displayed. This could effect the race names as well, so
you could display Small Earth Elemental or Earth
Elemental, Small. Possibly several Preferences, based
on type of object (which way to display spells, races,
equipment, etc.

I'd rather see an enhancement with a preference than
another tag to shove in memory somewhere.

Tir Gwaith
LST Chimp

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Paul W. King
TM SB, OGL/PL Chimp, Data Gibbon, BoD

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>Comment By: David R. Bender (papa_drb)
Date: 2011-07-12 21:15

Message:
http://jira.pcgen.org/browse/CODE-751

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Comment By: Eddy Anthony (eddyanthony)
Date: 2007-05-11 09:13

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Capitalization may be a moot point now. There is a new TEXT token in the
5.11 line which can be used as a prefix on any token and will change the
capitalization to whatever the sheet author wants. I've used this a lot in
the statblock4 sheet, the spell list on that appears in all lower case.

This doesn't address the issue of proper names though.

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Comment By: Andrew McDougall (tir-gwaith)
Date: 2007-05-11 01:57

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Ok, I see several options.

1) Enhancement to OUTPUTNAME to allow the different order by preference. 
That's Option 2.  Ignore the whole capitalization thing....

2) For the Capital/no capital.  That could also be a preference, but would
also require a data update (at least for CMP, not the RSRD datasets.  Would
effect some of our 3rd party sets).  Idea is to have a specific tag in the
Name/Output name that designates that the next letter should always be
capital, even if the 'decapitalization' option is chose.  something like \
stuff in RegEx....

By using code manipulation, it will be much easier to maintain on the data
side, as well as letting users choose which way they want the output
without having to decide which _datasets_ have to be loaded for their
preference.  That bit seems clunky to me.

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Comment By: James Dempsey (jdempsey)
Date: 2006-08-21 20:02

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The main problem with the preference (Option #2) is what do
you do with proper names. The Standard used by WOTC is that
these should remain capitalised. e.g "Trev's retributive
strike" or "calming ode to Trev". Option #1 could cater for
this easily, but using option #2 we would need to have a
workaround to cater for the proper names.

Cheers,
James.

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Comment By: Frank Kliewe (frank_kliewe)
Date: 2006-08-21 12:34

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So the question here is do we want to change the data, so it
goes from one form of display to another, or do we want a
function to format the output.

Should we poll the user on their preference?

-- Frank

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Comment By: Martijn Verburg (karianna)
Date: 2005-09-27 08:03

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So you'd ratehr see 1. or 2. ? - K

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