Removing the space after an article (definite and undefinite)

[Natrium729 (Nathanaël Marion)]

Sorry for the late reply…

I haven’t tested yet, but it would seem you are right, it comes form the lines you mentioned. In the same routine in the Inform 6 library, we can see that the space is not printed.

And best of all (if I understand correctly, but feel free to correct me), it only applies when the articles I6 property is set, so I could just suppress the space in that case and it won’t change he normal behavior otherwise.

So the behavior has changed in Inform 7, but I wonder why one would have bothered at all, since Inform 7 does not use articles, as stated in Definitions.i6t:

Property articles; ! not used by I7, but an interesting hook in the parser

Would removing the space be a good suggestion/bug report to make? Since no space is printed in the normal course, when articles is not provided. (The spaces are “hardcoded” in the LanguageArticles array.)

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@matt_weiner

And maybe what you need to do is add an extra flag on that to check whether the space needs to be printed, and set a flag on things with names like “arbre” and “hibou” that somehow gets passed to PrefaceByArticle–maybe through DefArt and CDefArt? But this goes way farther than anything I’ve ever been able to pull off with I6 template hacking.

I think I’ll just suppress the space in the I6 template, and instruct French users to write the following when needed:

Include (-
    with articles "L'" "l'" "l'",
-) when defining the arbre.

It’s so rarely used it’d be easier than to tinker with the template.

Thanks a lot, it really helped me! I’ll make the changes soon and see if it works with no side-effects