In the case of an object with the 'proper' attribute
and a lower-case name (such as "your nose", "your corduroy trousers", "your mother's purse"),
the (The) print rule should capitalise the first letter of the object name,
so that library messages such as
(The) x1, " ", (isorare) x1, " empty."
correctly produce "Your mother's purse is empty." Create a new global caps_mode and replace CDefart() in parserm.h: The same kind of patch should probably be done for CInDefart() as well.
To make the code safer, Indefart() and Defart() should also be modified
to set caps_mode to false, in case game code sets it to true.
Since the variable should be changable by game code, we have to count on game
code changing it, and sometimes carelessly so.
About Patches
Issue L61107 [previous patch]
(The) with 'proper' should capitalise object name
Submitted by: Roger Firth
Appeared in: Library 6/11 or before
Fixed in: -
Problem
Solution (by Fredrik Ramsberg)
[ CDefart o
saveIndef saveCaps;
#Ifdef YOU__TX;
if (o == player) {
print (string) YOU__TX;
return;
}
#Endif;
saveIndef = indef_mode; indef_mode = false;
saveCaps = caps_mode; caps_mode = true;
if (~~o ofclass Object) {
indef_mode = NULL; print (PSN__) o;
}
else
if (o has proper) {
indef_mode = NULL;
PrintToBuffer(StorageForShortName, 160, PSN__, o);
if (caps_mode)
StorageForShortName->WORDSIZE =
UpperCase(StorageForShortName->WORDSIZE);
for (o=0 : o<StorageForShortName-->0 : o++)
print (char) StorageForShortName->(o+WORDSIZE);
}
else
PrefaceByArticle(o, 0);
indef_mode = saveIndef; caps_mode = saveCaps;
];
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