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May 22nd, 2018, 18:27 #11
em dash is great indeed. I totally forgot about it. Alt+0151 and we are done. Unfortunately when i type /rollon the parser totally ignored the emdash. The output is
[ERROR] Unable to find table (Character Creation Home Worlds).
Quite funny with those dashes.The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back.
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May 22nd, 2018, 18:31 #12
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I don't know whether a tilde makes a table usable in Fantasy Grounds. However, a tilde typically isn't used to transition between phrases or clauses. The tilde immediately calls to my mind a negation since logicians often use the tilde to indicate a negated statement. Hurley and Watson, for example—whose textbook I use when teaching Introduction to Logic—define a negation as follows: "A statement having a tilde as its main operator" (Hurley and Watson 725).
So,
"It is not the case that the weapon is magical."
translates into the following statement:
~M
Since this site has a lot of programmers and coders present, that stipulated meaning of the tilde seems preferred.
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May 22nd, 2018, 19:10 #13
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May 22nd, 2018, 19:14 #14
It's more a technical limitation of FG's parser/clipboard stuff. It just doesn't deal well with custom characters, and in a /command you cannot even insert the ASCII value either.
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May 22nd, 2018, 19:21 #15
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May 22nd, 2018, 21:33 #16
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I see similar limitations in utilities that serve the education field. For example, the Canvas classroom management utility has a tool called SpeedGrader™. It allows graders to make Comments in the margins of electronic documents, but some special characters don't work--at least not for me.
Using Autohotkey, I got Microsoft Word to insert a horsehoe by using the following hotstring:
::*hw::U{+}2283!x
return
That simple script was five years in the making for me! But that doesn't work in the Canvas Comments on SpeedGrader™. In Fantasy Grounds, the absence of some special characters or logical operators isn't a big deal.
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