In some Inform games there is a problem with inventory, for example: Well, if you drop the bag and then you take it again, you'll have: But, the pen and the notepad are not in the bag! To solve this I changed VerbLibm.h:
in the [ WriteAfterEntry routine,
I removed one of the last lines (if (c_style & TERSE_BIT ~= 0)
and I added: print ")" to the line above, with this result: Then, in English.h, ListMiscellany phrase n.22 I added
a parenthesis before the word "inside", so it results in: It seems there's still a bug when displaying tall inventories.
For example: I cured this by changing the last line of the replaced WriteAfterEntry
-- originally just print ")"; -- to: Probably not the most elegant solution, but it seems to work. The fix causes a close quote to appear in other, unintended places,
and is very similar to the easier measure of setting TERSE_BIT in inventory style.
If this is worrying testers, then simply add TERSE_BIT to the default inventory style,
and replace InvWideSub.
IMHO the inventory listing is not ambiguous because of placement of commas and use of 'is' or 'are'.
About Patches
Issue L61018
Inventory with a container
Submitted by: Francesco Cordella
Appeared in: Library 6/10 or before
Fixed in: -
Problem
>inventory
You are carrying a pen, a note-pad and a bag,
inside which there are a sheet and a match.
>inventory
You are carrying bag, inside which there are
a sheet and a match, a pen, a note-pad.
Solution
(@pull listing_size; @pull listing_together; @pull lt_value; print ")";)
22: print " (inside ";
Update (by Daniel Lackey)
You are carrying:
your bag
your gun
your cellular phone
) your clothes (being worn)
if (inventory_style==FULLINV_BIT + ENGLISH_BIT + RECURSE_BIT) print ")";
Update (by Cedric Knight)
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