Re: spoon-discuss: Neatening up - English

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/30/02 at 5:26 PM Wonko wrote:

>How does this look?
>
>
>{{
>__Neatening Up - Conventions__
>
>Create:
>{{
>__Conventions__
>
>[[This rule contains conventions on how certain parts of the rules shall be
>interpreted in cases where it is confusing or ambiguous.]]
>
>A. English
>
>In all cases, the meaning of a term in the rules that is not specified as
>having a specific meaning shall have the meaning granted to it by common
>use
>of the english language and the context surrounding the use of the word.
>
>B. Spivak Pronouns
>
>The following table entries, known as Spivak pronouns, shall be understood
>to replace the standard English third person pronouns with which they are
>paired. The Spivak pronouns shall be understood to refer to either gender,
>as appropriate. [[Example: "e" may refer either to "he" or "she".]]
>                Spivak    standard
>subject         e         he/she
>object          em        him/her
>possessive      eir/eirs  his/hers
>reflexive       emself    himself/herself
>
>Upon the creation of this rule, the admin must amend the above table to
>look
>nice, after which this sentence and the following comment are deleted from
>this rule. [[That's because I can't make it look all purdy like r7 does]]
>
>C. Comments
>
>The following two non-whitespace characters:
>
>[ ]
>
>are considered "reserved characters" when appearing in Official Documents
>in
>ways defined herein.
>
>Excepting any text in this Section prior to and including this sentence,
>any
>text appearing within doubled square brackets ("[[" and "]]") shall be
>considered "comment" text. Comment text shall not have the force of Rule;
>its purpose is solely elucidative or demonstrative.
>
>D. Standard Delimiters
>
>The character sequences '{{' and '}}' (without the single quotes) may be
>used in the text of any Action, Proposal, or Rule to mark the beginning and
>end, respectively, of text that should be set apart, such as the text of a
>Proposal or Rule, or an amendment to either one. If it is not explicitly
>specified that these character sequences mean something else, they are
>considered to delimit text in that way.
>
>The character sequence '__' (again without the single quotes) may be used
>to
>delimit the title of a Rule or Proposal; the title begins after the first
>'__' and ends before the second one. The title is applied to whatever Rule
>or Proposal has most recently been introduced in the text of the message.
>If
>it appears after the opening delimiter for the Rule or Proposal it should
>be
>applied to, it is removed from the text of that Rule or Proposal and made
>to
>be its title.
>
>These standard delimiters are not required to be used in any circumstance;
>any method of delimiting text in which it is reasonably clear where the
>text
>begins and ends is sufficient.
>
>}}
>
>Repeal rules 217 [[Standard Delimiters]], 7 [[Spivak Pronouns]], and 8
>[[Comments]].
>}}
>--
>Wonko

Works for me.

Any idea how the dictionary thing is handled in other games?

						Glotmorf