Color and lore support for written books

[VoxPopuliZombiemold]

Written books don't seem to support colors in their name, or allow for lore of any kind.

A drop like:

Monster_Eggs:
  - drop: writtenbook@~&4Deep Discoveries:&6Archeology Journal 05:author=DoosyDittle:page=Day 32 - It's been weeks into our expedition, but all my men have been able to excavate has been a few caveman skeletons and old pottery. I am thinking that we need to go deeper underground, now if only I can get us the grant money.:page=Day 48 - Finally convinced my sponsors to dish out the cash, now we can finally excavate at the levels we need, lets hope this pays off.:page=Day 49 - Eureka. We found a pefectly intact dragon skeleton, and so close to bedrock. I estimate roughly 6 blocks above completely dense bedrock. Now if only we had found this sooner before the pockets of our sponsor dried out.
    chance: 100%
    flags: UNIQUE

Doesn't work at all it would seem. Something like this:

Monster_Eggs:
  - drop: writtenbook@author=DoosyDittle~&5Deep Discoveries:&6Archeology Journal 05:page=Day 32 - It's been weeks into our expedition, but all my men have been able to excavate has been a few caveman skeletons and old pottery. I am thinking that we need to go deeper underground, now if only I can get us the grant money.:page=Day 48 - Finally convinced my sponsors to dish out the cash, now we can finally excavate at the levels we need, lets hope this pays off.:page=Day 49 - Eureka. We found a pefectly intact dragon skeleton, and so close to bedrock. I estimate roughly 6 blocks above completely dense bedrock. Now if only we had found this sooner before the pockets of our sponsor dried out.
    chance: 100%
    flags: UNIQUE

Doesn't work either. and lastly, something like this:

Monster_Eggs:
  - drop: writtenbook@author=DoosyDittle:title=&5Deep Discoveries:&6Archeology Journal 05:page=Day 32 - It's been weeks into our expedition, but all my men have been able to excavate has been a few caveman skeletons and old pottery. I am thinking that we need to go deeper underground, now if only I can get us the grant money.:page=Day 48 - Finally convinced my sponsors to dish out the cash, now we can finally excavate at the levels we need, lets hope this pays off.:page=Day 49 - Eureka. We found a pefectly intact dragon skeleton, and so close to bedrock. I estimate roughly 6 blocks above completely dense bedrock. Now if only we had found this sooner before the pockets of our sponsor dried out.
    chance: 100%
    flags: UNIQUE

Doesn't work either.

[CelticMinstrel]

Was this closed because it was solved, or by accident?

[VoxPopuliZombiemold]

I found out a way to do it. Though the syntax for books doesn't support color codes itself, you can still separate the syntax with ! and do the lore and name like a normal item.

[CelticMinstrel]

So you can't put colours in book pages?

[Zarius]

Although the section character would always work people find it easier to remember/type the &a etc color codes which requires specific support.

I hadn't supported variables (which includes colors) in book title/author/pages at the time this issue was opened but issue #211 notes a fix for that. (noticed I hadn't mentioned specifically that colors had been fixed in the issue - noted that in the issue now)

[CelticMinstrel]

Adding &a etc support is trivial now, since there's a method in ChatColor that does it for you.

[Zarius]

Yes, but the point was that it's not automatic - I plain forgot to support it for the book data :-) On 14/04/2013 4:44 AM, "CelticMinstrel" notifications@github.com wrote:

Adding &a etc support is trivial now, since there's a method in ChatColor that does it for you.

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