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Issue L61002 Strange spacing on inside_description Submitted by: Daniel Schepler     Appeared in: Library 6/10     Fixed in: Library 6/11 Problem I just noticed that if a player is inside a closed, nontransparent container, the library prints an extra blank line between the header 'The container' and the first inside_description line it prints. Solution My fix was to apply the following changes to the LookSub() routine, which keeps track of whether it's gotten past the first such description. (The patch is against the stock 6/10 library, serial 991113.) --- verblibm.h~ Sat Nov 13 11:29:14 1999 +++ verblibm.h Sun Nov 28 01:32:33 1999 @@ -1568,7 +1568,7 @@ return visibility_levels; ]; -[ LookSub allow_abbrev visibility_levels i j k; +[ LookSub allow_abbrev visibility_levels i j k nl_flag; if (parent(player)==0) return RunTimeError(10); .MovedByInitial; @@ -1612,6 +1612,8 @@ } } + if (visibility_ceiling==location) nl_flag = 1; + if (visibility_levels == 0) Locale(thedark); else { for (i=player, j=visibility_levels: j>0: j--, i=parent(i)) @@ -1620,8 +1622,9 @@ for (j=visibility_levels: j>0: j--) { for (i=player, k=0: k < j: k++) i=parent(i); if (i.inside_description~=0) - { new_line; PrintOrRun(i,inside_description); } - Locale(i); + { if (nl_flag) new_line; else nl_flag = 1; + PrintOrRun(i,inside_description); } + if (Locale(i)~=0) nl_flag=1; } }

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