jpd236
commented
2 years ago After looking more closely at this file, it seems sufficiently broken that it isn't really worth supporting it properly, though I'll reach out to the AV Club folks to let them know.
This is the RTBL section, for reference: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4713321/138503982-51f62027-5583-48dc-8332-b08afd5976a7.png (linked to avoid further spoilers)
There are a few problems here:
- The one-digit numbers are not padded with a 0 up front. Seems like Across Lite doesn't actually require this. It wouldn't be too hard to support this piece - I think all we have to do is accept "0" as the first key in addition to " 0", since the rest of the code seems to tolerate the omission of the leading 0.
- Each of the entries are duplicated, seemingly for no reason? But this is actually valid, if unusual.
- The last entry is missing the trailing ";", so XWord hits EoF before the delimiter and treats it as a failure, thus ignoring the whole rebus section.
Across Lite does handle this, but doesn't show the last letter in the rebus entry when you reveal it, so clearly it's not happy either.
When revealing the solution of the .puz file of the AV Club crossword from 2021-10-13, only the first letter of the rebus squares gets revealed.
However, I tested with a .puz from another rebus puzzle, and was able to reveal the entire square contents there. So something seems to be set up differently with the AV Club puzzle.
Both puzzles have the full square contents revealed when using Across Lite itself.