Is it possible to add in a new feature to format a note or description or whatnot without having to log into the game for the editors OR to type out 70 characters across the top of notepad to get a baseline format or roll a 1st level character used primarily for the formatting feature?
You don't need a subject line nor a to line as you won't be able to actually post notes from it, but I think it would be nice for those of us that want MUD formatted notes or history or descriptions without needing to actually log in for them.
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[O]ffline Formatter
This way, you can load up the mud, fire up the note editor, plug in what you've written down from notepad and hit "format". You can then show the text, copy it back to notepad and now you've got your paragraphs formatted, ready for proper spacing, indentation, etc without the need to go line by line approximately 70 characters in.
Thoughts?
Edit: Changed thread title as it was apparently confusing to people.
I don't understand what is so hard about copying and pasting.. I've done it on three different editors. Wordpad, notepad, and Word. From PC to Mac... Its really not that difficult.
I don't understand what is so hard about copying and pasting.. I've done it on three different editors. Wordpad, notepad, and Word. From PC to Mac... Its really not that difficult.
I'm not sure you follow.
I take my notepad. I write my note out, run-on sentences are optional. I don't use line breaks at all unless it's for paragraphs or the line gets excessively long. Or I do a line break every sentence. Whatever. I then ctrl+a then ctrl+x, load up the offline formatter from the login screen and ctrl+v. Type in format (or .f), then show (.s), highlight, copy and paste back into notepad.
Then I do that for each subsequent paragraph, followed by saving the document.
When I'm next logged into my relevant character, my formatted text is ready to go. I can then just send the file to the MUD using my client (which will put things like "note +" or "desc +" before every line if I tell it to).
Rather than either logging into the character to format it, using a 1st level character as a format mule or doing it manually using 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 at the top of my page.
Copy - paste - format - copy - paste - done.
In short, I'm looking for a lazy way to format. Couldn't care less about posting from offline and I do make mention of NOT posting from offline.
Yeah you're way is ridiculously complicated. I type the note in a notepad with note + before each line then copy paste them into the game.. Takes like 10 seconds to do it....
Notepad, with 012345679..., even added a few extra numbers to compensate for note + and desc +. Type it up and do freestyle formatting on the spot. Copy and paste when logged in. In later years, it occurred that logging out to make notes was far more sensible.
An in-game offline editor, while an interesting concept, does appear more aesthetic. Which reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quote:
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
ROaclient has multilog send, one copy and paste and the whole note is in.
Can't multilog send with Zmud (that I'm aware of), but you can send an entire file. It's very nice. Makes things quite easy. Has the ability to put a string before and at the end of each line.
So if you have a .txt with this:
I am great
I am great
I am the greatest
You can have the client put "note +" before and perhaps "!" at the end, if you desire. So the final thing sent to the MUD would be:
note + I am great!
note + I am great!
note + I am the greatest!
You can also designate how quickly the lines from your file is sent to the MUD to prevent overload. You could decide to replay a saved log that way, at a rate of one line per second. A handy feature, too.
This suggestion was for none of that.
add the colon at the end and just plop it all in, should work.
note + blablablablablablablablablablablabla.;
note + blablablablablablablablablablablabla.;
note + blablablablablablablablablablablabla.;
note + blablablablablablablablablablablabla.;
UC
Not what I was talking about at all, UC.
Text A - Offline manual formatting - The thing I'm looking to avoid:
True, you could in a file as you're writing add separator characters to your text and while
it wouldn't look the nicest, it certainly would get the job done without breaking the flow too
much. Certainly one way to do it without it looking overly evil, but again, this suggestion
isn't talking about the different ways you can format your offline notes in a .txt file. This
suggestion was to take this atrocity of a formatted paragraph into something more
manageable.
Text B - Formatted in MUD - 60 character line length, done for me by typing two words:
True, you could in a file as you're writing add separator characters to
your text and while it wouldn't look the nicest, it certainly would get the
job done without breaking the flow too much. Certainly one way to do it
without it looking overly evil, but again, this suggestion isn't talking
about the different ways you can format your offline notes in a .txt file.
This suggestion was to take this atrocity of a formatted paragraph into
something more manageable.
The line length is moot, though. Irrelevant to my suggestion. As is the many ways to write an offline note.
95% of my notes and descriptions and applications and journal entries and votes are done offline. I have absolutely NO problem with firing up notepad or wordpad or any other text editor. I have NO problem with copying and pasting those sometimes long written pages into the MUD.
My problem lies in with FORMATTING (and only formatting) and the ways you have available to you to do it.
I don't want to post a note from offline, I want to FORMAT offline without resorting to the following:
Offline and you must do it manually, which is time consuming for a lot of notes.
You can format in game. Meanwhile you're now dedicated to being there at least 5 minutes on your character while you're distracted and putting the formatting touches on your notes (then you can send them, yes. A boon).
Have a note mule that sits at 1st level, you log in and format the note. Copy/paste back into editor and now you can send your note when you next log into your character.
I was looking for a quick and easy way for everyone to format their text offline using a feature you can only access in game.
Trick, you say my way is ridiculously complicated? I don't see how as I'm just talking about copy and pasting and formatting. You do it in game all the time. Type out your note. Toss "note format" at the end and "note post" it. Why not be able to do it offline using the same thing, just without being able to send it? If anything is complicated, it's typing out 60-70 characters at the top of your page and inserting breaks manually where relevant.
Of course, if there's a way you can have your client do it for you then by all means, send me some scripts and I'll plug it into my client as that would save a ton of time in the long run, too.
I'm not sure I can explain my suggestion for an easy way to format your notes offline using an in game feature any better than I already have. So I'm done with this thread.
If you want to keep thinking it's about posting notes offline, then that's your prerogative.
That being said, I actually like this Idea of a note section on the start menu. It would be nice to be able to log in and read news, changes, or notes without actually logging in.
After my long heinous when I returned I had to create a character to log in, only to realize the cabals that were advertising for new recruits were all of opposing alignment or ethos.
If you don't like a suggestion, state so. But attacking or making fun of the person for suggesting it is just rude and a great way to create a disconnect between that player and the community, which inevitably becomes a disconnect from that player and the game. We do not want that. We like having players engaged in the game and the community.
This is a quality of life suggestion, not a suggestion trying to fill in a gap in what can and can't be done with what is already available. It's been stated as such. So criticizing it because it is something that can be done via manipulating document editor is moot. This suggestion is about circumventing that solution. Please keep that in mind. Again, nobody is asking anyone to like a suggestion they are opposed to, rather I am putting it out there that being rude and abrasive is only negative. There is no positive value in it.
I'd like to see it to where we can do say.. format paragraph 1, format paragraph 2, etc. Cause the formater is great up until you need a break in the page.
No confusion. The overall goal is to improve the aesthetics/quality of notes, tomes, apps...it's a fine idea. Until then, eyeballing by trial and error yields good results.