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Newlines for units description

Posted: 28 Dec 2009, 05:15
by Forboding Angel
Not via a lua gadget, built into the engine. The fact that it isn't there already is jsut sad. It's not as if this is a small issue or one we haven't been fighting for quite some time now.

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 28 Dec 2009, 07:30
by smoth
Why not lua?

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 28 Dec 2009, 09:21
by Forboding Angel
Because it should be a default trait within the engine, not one that has to be added to a new mod.

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 28 Dec 2009, 14:28
by Neddie
Conversely, why lua rather than in the engine? It seems rather basic.

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 28 Dec 2009, 22:10
by zwzsg
I don't even know what you mean by "Newlines for units description". If by that you mean that you think the unit description should be in its own line instead of next to the unit name, separated by a hyphen, like now, then I am strongly against it.

But maybe you mean you want to have new lines in the middle of your unit description? Or something else?

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 00:17
by Forboding Angel
Yeah in the middle

"This unit is a badass because it does this \n And this \n Oh fuck me, it does this too?!?"

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 29 Dec 2009, 10:16
by imbaczek
fbi/tdf is rather obsolete and nearly deprecated, so i'm not sure if adding such a feature would make sense from an educational point of view 8)

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 01:59
by Forboding Angel
I use luadefs and I still can't make a newline in the description tag.

I get your point baczek, but the issue still remains.

Re: Newlines for units description

Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 14:57
by FLOZi
Does

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[[This is my unit yo.
This is a newline, yo]]
Not work?

Note that that form of strings do not interpret \n in the lua language, (whereas "..." do) so that may be the problem also.