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[WeiDU, .baf files]Added some useful identifiers to Syntax Highlighting #18

Closed 4Luke4 closed 4 years ago

4Luke4 commented 4 years ago

So far:

GENERAL.ids
GENDER.ids
HAND.ids
STATS.ids
STATE.ids
SPLSTATE.ids
ALIGN.ids
EA.ids
burner1024 commented 4 years ago

Looks good. Which game is it? And are you doing the conversion manually?

4Luke4 commented 4 years ago

Looks good. Which game is it? And are you doing the conversion manually?

I own the EE games, so I refer to them...

And yes, I'm doing the conversion manually by copying & pasting from NearInfinity.... Are you saying it can be automated?

burner1024 commented 4 years ago

OK, which EE game? There are several. (I'm just asking for clarity. I used ToB versions to get started).

And yes, I'm doing the conversion manually by copying & pasting from NearInfinity.... Are you saying it can be automated?

It can, and it should, in fact. (But it'll still entail a lot of copy-paste work - at first). Refer to the system for Fallout syntax: I converted the original txt doc into machine readable format. From that format, a small python script generates markdown files, and with Jekyll, a nice doc is generated and published. And once it's machine readable, it's easy to automate pulling doc updates into MLS. Right now all I have to do to update Fallout/sfall syntax is to run a script.

I think a similar system would benefit both WeiDU and IESDP (as well as MLS, of course). I remember Wisp mentioning that he's been wanting to move from Latex to something more modern/suitable. Don't know about IESDP maintainers.

I can help with scripting, but this still needs:

  1. Support from WeiDU/IESDP guys.
  2. community effort for transpiling the docs into machine readable format.

I know there's at least 280 people using MLS, so with will to do, it can be achieved in a really short time. If you think it's worth a try, we can pitch it to the doc maintainers, and if they agree, do a roll call on various forums.

4Luke4 commented 4 years ago

@burner1024 I'm taking into account EE games, all of them (those files should be the same across all those games – As far as I know, only the IWD:EE version of SPLSTATE.ids is somewhat different with respect to the BG(2):EE one, it contains less entries....)

burner1024 commented 4 years ago

OK, I didn't know all the IDS were the same. I'm merging this request for now. If you feel like trying to talk other people into the larger effort, let me know.

4Luke4 commented 4 years ago

OK, I didn't know all the IDS were the same.

Well, I cannot check the original games because I don't own them... Anyway, I don't expect that EE games replaced / edited the original references (you know, backward compatibility and things like that). I think that all those new references have been added on top of the original ones...

Of course, you need to update the .json file....

burner1024 commented 4 years ago

Of course, you need to update the .json file....

Yes, there's a script for that. The power of automation.