Re: spoon-discuss: Neatening up - English

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> 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
> 
> 

I think I swiped that dictionary bit from some other game... Macronomic,
maybe?

-- 
Wonko