Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-07 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 6, 2007 6:31 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - What do you use to edit/format rule text? > > It seems that Zefram, like me, has to pipe his rules through a formatter as > a postprocessing step, while root can use some emacs thing to write > natively in hardwrap mode. Well, I typicall

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-07 Thread Zefram
comex wrote: >- Do you use a script to generate your CotC messages? No. The judicial status report is my master working document, which I edit manually and post automatically via a cron job. Each case file is a plain text file which I edit manually. I post the case files, along with action mess

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Thursday 06 December 2007 18:31:54 comex wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007, Zefram wrote: > > I'll just add to that that I have a small Perl program to do > > ruleset-style paragraph filling for me. > > I've been meaning to start a thread about tools since I learned that pikhq > uses kmail

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread comex
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Zefram wrote: > I'll just add to that that I have a small Perl program to do > ruleset-style paragraph filling for me. I've been meaning to start a thread about tools since I learned that pikhq uses kmail. pikhq, - Do you have full text indexing on? (I don't, becaus

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Cctoide
> An ex-Acka player asked me about this privately a couple of months ago, > seeking advice about how to keep records for a hypothetical new nomic. > Here's what I wrote about the ruleset: > ... Ah, that explains it perfectly. Thanks for the in-depth response. :) (maybe I'll register, one of these

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Zefram
Cctoide wrote: >I was wondering whether you use any special >software to edit the rulesets. An ex-Acka player asked me about this privately a couple of months ago, seeking advice about how to keep records for a hypothetical new nomic. Here's what I wrote about the ruleset: My primary record is

Re: DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Ian Kelly
On Dec 6, 2007 5:22 PM, Cctoide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering whether you use any special > software to edit the rulesets. I can see doing > it all in a standard text editor, but all the > paragraph stuff seems like it would be rather > time-consuming. I'm not and never have been Ru

DIS: Question for the Rulekeepor

2007-12-06 Thread Cctoide
I've been lurking around Agora for a year and a halfor so (according to the deluge of mailing list messages in my inbox...), and have decided to boldly post a question addressed to the Rulekeepor (which I think is currently Zefram?)! (thunderclap) I was wondering whether you use any special softwa