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Minor hieroglyph inconsistencies #34

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

This is very picky, but when I went through the hieroglyphs and compared them to the official release, I noticed a couple of minor inconsistencies:

In most cases, there are two spaces between hieroglyphs. Here are the exceptions I found:

The hieroglyphs at the top of the pyramid:

>EXAMINE OPENING
The opening sits in the upper right-hand corner of the block. It's a small
square opening, about four inches square, far too small for you to enter, and
rather shallow. Some hieroglyphs travel across the block, cut off by the
opening:

       !-!        !-!
->  #. ! !  -  #  ! !  /

The hieroglyphs in the central room of the cube:

>EXAMINE HIEROGLYPHS
The hieroglyphs look like this:

                    !-!
...>  -. >... #  !  ! !
                    !-!

/  ...>  /  #  !@!

The scroll:

>READ SCROLL
The scroll reads as follows:

*->  <.>  <:.>  ... <::.>

::  :  **  --->>  -)  (*)

The heiroglyphs in the Selkis room: (Compare this to the other three rooms.)

>READ HIEROGLYPHS

       (@@)

           .
))  /  #  /  ::

<-*  (@@)  =!=  /  *

These are all identical to the official release, and the hieroglyphs are correct as far as I can tell, so it's not really a bug. It's worth nothing that it's always after a ".", so it probably has to do with the built-in feature to remove double spaces between sentence. But in many case, the surrounding lines were adjusted accordingly.

When there are several hieroglyphs, they're not indented. Except for the PLASTER1-GLYPHS:

>READ HIEROGLYPHS

   *->  #  !!!  ::  ...>  .-

In the official release, these glyphs are not indented.

When there are just hieroglyphs, with no descriptive text before them, there's always a blank line first. See some of the above examples. But in BEND-HALL, there's not:

>READ HIEROGLYPHS
           .     =  - -
!@!  ...>  -  #  *   =   ::  <... ;

#  *
   =