i don’t think this is possible but i’ve been surprised before.
it would be nice to be able to tag similar objects with a plural marker like in inform. i’m guessing this is not possible without really mucking around in the guts of the parser.
the only other way i can think of is to have a dummy object in scope that responds to the plural name but this is clunky.
Does something like this work?
#b-red
(name *) red block
(plural dict *) blocks
#b-green
(name *) green block
(plural dict *) blocks
man. i totally forgot that (plural dict $) even existed.
like i said. i’ve been surprised before (usually by my own doofus-ness).
i’m going to shortly delete this post out of embarrassment.
Please don’t do that. Someone else is sure to have the same question eventually.
yeah, i decided to leave it up as a shrine to not reading the documentation.
Sometimes, it feels like the whole “Authoring” section of this forum could be characterized that way.
Well, that’s the thing, right? For me it’s an easy question to answer, because I was reading that section of the manual recently; for anyone else trying to find it, it’s not necessarily obvious that it’ll be in the section Library > Items > Plural Forms. That’s the nice thing about this forum; often there’ll be someone who can answer immediately what would otherwise take ages to find!