Anyone able to help me eliminate the extra carriage return after this phrase?
I’ve tried run paragraph on, and no line break.
[spoiler]
some mahogany bookcases are a door. "[mahoganydesc]". It is east of Library and west of King's Pass. Understand "bookcase/bookshelf/misaligned/slightly" as mahogany bookcases. The description is "[one of]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases.[or]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases.[/p]Well, except one that is slightly misaligned with the others.[or]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases except the one that is slightly out of alignment with the others.[stopping]"
To say mahoganydesc:
if the location is Library:
if mahogany bookcases are closed:
say "The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness.[/nl]";
if mahogany bookcases are open:
say "The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. One section of bookcase has been swung out from the wall at a forty-five degree angle, revealing a dark passage to the east.[/nl]";
if the location is King's Pass:
if mahogany bookcases are closed:
say "To the west is the unpolished back of the closed mahogany bookcase.[/nl]";
if mahogany bookcases are open:
say "To the west, the mahogany bookcase angles out, admitting a stripe of light into the dark corridor you stand in.[/nl]".[/spoiler]
This produces:
[code]>open bookcase
You open the mahogany bookcases.
look
Library
The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. One section of bookcase has been swung out from the wall at a forty-five degree angle, revealing a dark passage to the east.
[/code]
Any ideas? (I have /nl set to say “[no line break]”)
Take the periods out of the say phrase, and put one in the top-level description instead.
some mahogany bookcases are a door. "[mahoganydesc]." It is east of Library and west of King's Pass.
To say mahoganydesc:
if the location is Library:
if mahogany bookcases are closed:
say "The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness";
if mahogany bookcases are open:
say "The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. One section of bookcase has been swung out from the wall at a forty-five degree angle, revealing a dark passage to the east";
if the location is King's Pass:
if mahogany bookcases are closed:
say "To the west is the unpolished back of the closed mahogany bookcase";
if mahogany bookcases are open:
say "To the west, the mahogany bookcase angles out, admitting a stripe of light into the dark corridor you stand in".
This punctuation dance is not my favorite part of I7, but it works.
[code]To say mahoganydesc:
if the location of the player is the library begin;
if the mahogany bookcases are closed begin;
say “The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness”;
otherwise if the mahogany bookcases are open;
say “The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. One section of bookcase has been swung out from the wall at a forty-five degree angle, revealing a dark passage to the east”;
end if;
otherwise if the location of the player is the king’s pass;
if the mahogany bookcases are closed begin;
say “To the west is the unpolished back of the closed mahogany bookcase”;
otherwise if the mahogany bookcases are open;
say “To the west, the mahogany bookcase angles out, admitting a stripe of light into the dark corridor you stand in”;
end if;
end if.
Some mahogany bookcases are a door. “[mahoganydesc].”. The mahogany bookcases are east of the Library and west of the King’s Pass. The description of the mahogany bookcases is “[one of]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases[or]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases. Well, except one that is slightly misaligned with the others[or]You see nothing special about the mahogany bookcases except the one that is slightly out of alignment with the others[stopping].”. Understand “bookcase/bookshelf/misaligned/slightly” as mahogany bookcases.[/code]
The only problem is that zarf beat me to it.
To say statements and finalising puctuation (full stops etc) do not play nicely together. As a general rule to prevent this, try putting the fulls stop at the front of the say statements rather than behind.
To say mahoganydesc:
say "Paragraph of text beforehand"; [this will show up with full stop at end]
if the location of the player is the library begin;
if the mahogany bookcases are closed begin;
say ". The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness";
otherwise if the mahogany bookcases are open;
say ". The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. One section of bookcase has been swung out from the wall at a forty-five degree angle, revealing a dark passage to the east";
end if;
otherwise if the location of the player is the king's pass;
if the mahogany bookcases are closed begin;
say ". To the west is the unpolished back of the closed mahogany bookcase";
otherwise if the mahogany bookcases are open;
say ". To the west, the mahogany bookcase angles out, admitting a stripe of light into the dark corridor you stand in";
end if;
end if.
Here, the text will display as expected with no extra line breaks.
As an alternative, you could leave “[mahoganydesc]” as is (no period) and add a space between the final period and closing quotes of the various descriptions:
To say mahoganydesc:
if the location is Library:
if mahogany bookcases are closed:
say "The entire room is well-appointed with mahogany wood bookcases packed tightly with volumes of every color and thickness. ";[<- added space here]
... etc.
An open square bracket ("[") behaves very much like the end of a text (closing quotes). If there is sentence-final punctuation immediately before it, the punctuation will usually be followed by a line break. Things get more complicated when you have different phrases, activities and rules outputting text together, but that’s a good basic rule to start with.
