Capitalize door name at beginning of sentence in room description?

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I’ve got some doors named door 101, door 102, door 103, etc. I think I’ve figured out how to make them always capitalized (Door 101) or always lower case (door 101). What I can’t figure out is how to make them capitalized when they appear at the beginning of a sentence.

The description of Room 103 is "Bla bla bla.[paragraph break][Door 103] leads northeast."

Leaves me with

`Bla bla bla.

door 103 leads northeast.`

I know there is something called “in sentence case” but I can’t figure out how to make it work. Putting those words in different places just seems to give me different errors.

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This is unfortunately not something that Inform handles very well out of the box. It handles capitalization on articles, but assumes anything without an article is a proper noun that should be capitalized exactly as it appears in the source text.

But, it’s not too hard to add, for a situation like this.

To say (the item - a thing) capitalized:
    let T be "[item]";
    say T in sentence case.

This isn’t a perfect solution because it lowercases all the rest of the letters, which would not be ideal for, say, a person named “van Helsing”. But it should work for your case.

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Thanks! That seems to have worked!

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If you were doing it another way than in the room’s description property itself, a lot of options open up. If it weren’t scenery, you could say:

For printing a locale paragraph about a door (called the portal):
  say the printed name of the portal in sentence case;
  if the portal is door 103, say " leads northeast."

but there would be a bunch of choices to make while considering how best to scale that up to the rest of the doors.

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