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viresh-ratnakar / exolve

Online interactive crossword software in JavaScript
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Feature Request: Annotation column next to clues #90

Closed martindemello closed 8 months ago

martindemello commented 9 months ago

Variety crosswords often have a gimmick like "drop a word from every clue before solving, initial letters of dropped words spell out an instruction". It would be helpful if exolve had a column before the clues where solvers could record things like this as they go.

It would also help for skeleton crosswords where you need to write the clue answers somewhere other than the grid until you figure the grid out.

DKMiller71 commented 8 months ago

Exolve already has the option to add fill ins next to the clues. Just add an underscore after the enum. It doesn't make a separate column, though.

https://github.com/viresh-ratnakar/exolve#forcing-the-display-of-placeholder-blanks

martindemello commented 8 months ago

oh nice, missed that! i still think a column would be nice in addition - when i'm doing crosswords i tend to write the answer after the clue but any extractions before it so that i can easily read down the column.

viresh-ratnakar commented 8 months ago

I like the idea. I've implemented it and will push an update soon (after some more testing).

You can try it right now if you like, by pointing at dev versions of the files:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://viresh-ratnakar.github.io/dev/exolve-m.css"/>
<script src="https://viresh-ratnakar.github.io/dev/exolve-m.js"></script>

Here's the documentation that's getting added:

Adding "extraction slots" before clues

A common ruse in cryptics is to make each clue somehow yield an extra letter and to make a meta out of those letters. Exolve allows you to add a column of "extraction slots" before each clue. Solvers can record letters/numbers in these slots (and these are saved in the state too). You can do this by specifying exolve-option: add-extraction-slots. By default, if you specify this option, then a one-letter slot is added. But you can specify the number of letters in the slot with an optional parameter (e.g., exolve-option: add-extraction-slots:3).

viresh-ratnakar commented 8 months ago

This feature is now checked in (v0.55) and live on my served copy. I'll close the issue after a while, unless there are follow-ups needing tweaks.

viresh-ratnakar commented 8 months ago

Closing, please reopen if there are any follow-ups.