viresh-ratnakar
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3 years ago I have been contemplating doing this and have some thoughts. This is a good opportunity to write them out and discuss before implementing.
- For my own crosswords, I have been saving the Exolve file and manually editing it to add preamble/explanations/ninas. After editing manually, I reload it into Exet, which already does the basic nice things that you'd expect: continues the edit history of the same crossword as the ID is the same, renders the added sections/features, and preserves them with subsequent Saves.
- For the preamble/explanations section, for reasons that I've previously covered, I will not be adding a full WYSIWYG editor.
- What I have in mind is that from the Edit menu you will have options to add/edit Preamble/Explanations/Questions/Ninas/Colours
- For Preamble/Explanations, you will simply get a panel in which you can add/edit raw HTML, and no formatting buttons.
- For Questions, I can make it a little smarter, giving options to provide the enum, and whether it should be hidden, and whether lowercase letters are accepted (mapping to Exolve features for these options), and to reorder the questions. I can also add a way to provide the Submit URL if desired.
- For ninas/colours: I think of these as higher priority than the above, actually, because the above sections are all easily edited directly in the Exolve file, whereas ninas/colorus are a bit painful as you have to spell out their chessboard-notation locations. A UI where you can toggle a cell's inclusion in a specific exolve-nina/exolve-colour group by clicking on the cell will be convenient.
- I also want "clear this" and "clear all" in Exet to not delete letters that are parts of some nina. I almost always include ninas in my grids, and this is the part that is annoying when doing the grid fill.
Antagony1060
I'm sure you will have already given this some thought, but I wondered whether you had any plans as yet to provide editing of such Exolve features within Exet?