[I7] Lists with commas (SOLVED - I guess)

Authoring Inform 7
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Hello again!

Promise I won’t bore you anymore.

How can I list things with only commas and no “and”?

Check: [list of things carried by the player] removes the article, but not the conjunction.
Is there a way to have BAG, ROPE, DRESS instead of BAG, ROPE AND DRESS?

I know, I’m taking Inform back a thousand years… :slight_smile:

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Take a look at chapter 21. It seems you could make a new list out of “the list of things carried by the player”…I think you can then manipulate the list differently.

I don’t supposed it’d work doing

repeat with item running through the list of things carried by the player: say "[item], [no line break]; next; say ".".

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If you want to remove “and” from every list you could change list writer internal rule response © from " and " to “”, I think.

That is:

List writer internal rule response (C) is "".

Don’t forget to use the serial comma!

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Hmmm, isn’t that what the serialised comma option is for?

5

Nope, thats for printing a comma BEFORE the “and”, I think.

matt’s suggestion works, although you have to add a [space] between quotes (" ").

I will try working on Hanon’s suggestion too, as it seems less general, so less risky.

Thanks for now.

6

Try the extension Complex Listing by Emily Short. It gives you full control over the list writer for things like this.

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Thanks a lot, Draconis.

Up to now, the quicker solution seems to be:

List writer internal rule response (C) is ", ".

I hardwire the comma so to show when just 2 objects are listed. I don’t use serial comma.