Add option to select no-dir-clues before Across/Down.

[erikstar]

Hi!

A Feature request which perhaps sounds a bit specialized... But for my music quizes which try to follow swedish national radio "musikkrysset" standard, it would be very convenient.

You can see "Sveriges Radio" solution here: https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2078&artikel=723047 And they don't even have any support for turning words entries. I have a mission to make them fix that, and one way should be to recommend them using your program. I think they have 1.7 million listeners every saturday :-)

And I think many users should miss your wonderful feature of following the no-dir-clues direction when they enter words, if they have to click three times to get to "no-dir-clues-mode"

Test: https://fripp.changeip.org/melodikryss/melodikryss1/index_clues.html And click on no-dir-clue 21. You need to click three times to get to the one "you want"

/Erik S

[viresh-ratnakar]

Hi Erik,

In your puzzle, the "down" lights at 1 and 21 are actually extended and supplanted by the nodir clues, right?

So, I'll create a way for you to specify that certain clues (1d and 21d in this puzzle) should be ignored: they will never get highlighted in the grid.

Additionally, I can add an option to prioritize nodir clues when having to change clue direction.

With these two, you should be able to get the behaviour that you are looking for, I think.

[erikstar]

I agree! These two fixes should be both logical and solve my "problem". Great!

[viresh-ratnakar]

I have checked in v0.89. You should be able to get these features from it.

To mark clues such as 1d and 21d as "deleted", use something like this (https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exolve#deleted-clues):

exolve-down: 1 21

I was going to add an option to set direction priority. But I realized that this is better done by using the order of the sections as specified in the specs (it had actually been a pending thing for me to fix: if someone lists the nodir section before the down section, and both of these before the across section, for eg., then that should be the order shown when displaying the clues).

So, in your puzzle, just make the nodir section appear before exolve-across and exolve-down (you can leave them blank if needed). See https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exolve#order-of-rendered-clue-lists

[erikstar]

Just perfect! I use two new options together: The "~" no remove the numbering together with the "*" to skip the clue.