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viresh-ratnakar / exet

Web app for crossword construction: designing a grid, filling the grid, creating straight or cryptic clues, and downloading as Exolve or .puz. All data is saved locally, no crosswords are sent to any server.
https://viresh-ratnakar.github.io/exet.html
MIT License
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Add way to link clues. #1

Closed elwoodpd closed 3 years ago

elwoodpd commented 3 years ago

Don't know if I am just being thick, but I can't seem to find how you would to paired up clues. E.g. answers that run over multiple numbers.

viresh-ratnakar commented 3 years ago

At this time, the Exet interface does not support creating linked clues (I'll get around to it eventually).

However, you can create linked clues easily by editing the Exolve file, which is a plain text format. And then you can load the modified Exolve file from Exet, and the linked clue should survive and should play well with Exet (but let me know if you see any issues).

In Exolve, you specify a linked clue as you would expect. Eg:

exolve-across: 2 Some across clue ... (5) ... 12 See 13. ... exolve-down: ... 2 See 13. 13, 12, 2d A linked clue that includes 12a (assuming there is no 12d, "12" is unambiguous), and 2d (4,5,3)

viresh-ratnakar commented 3 years ago

I've added support for creating/busting linked clues now, in v0.27.

From the README.md file:

Linked clues

You can link clues, creating sequences of lights that make up a single solution that is clued using the "parent" clue (the first one in the sequence). To create such linkages, you can click on the clue number of the current clue, which will bring up a panel through which you can add a linked clue to the current clue. The same panel also provides a button for breaking up a group of previously linked clues. When you break up a group of linked clues, any existing clue text from them will also get deleted.

Grid-fill suggestions as well as autofill work as you might expect with linked clues.