Re: Plural Decorations in TADS


13 Dec 1995 23:40:24 GMT

Charles Gerlach (cagerlac@merle.acns.nwu.edu) wrote:
: Maybe it's because I haven't (yet) registered TADS, maybe it's because I am
: *way* lazy, but I cannot figure out how to tell it to make my decorations
: plural. It irks me no end to have the game say:

: The clothes isn't important.

: Is there a simple fix? (I've only started writing TADS code in the past week.
: Therefore, level of experience = e as e -> 0.)

Simple? Well the simplest approach is to write your sdescs in such a
fashion that every word is in the singular. (eg: "The clothing isn't
important.")

The only other way is to do what I ended up doing in my game - adding
a plural flag and then rewriting adv.t to check for it. Takes forever and
is very time-consuming.

- Neil K.

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