Reason: The following concern was raised:
"The trademark indicators were not out of sync. The Guidebook
uses footnotes for that, 'history' uses "(tm)" in the text which
works better when nethack displays the text."
Qt's text window for 'history' was unexpectedly wide and it turned
out that that was to fit in one excessively wide line. tty has
been formatting it by splitting it into one normal sized line
followed by an excessively short line.
Give an implied explanation for the seemingly odd copyright info in
the source files and the run-time startup banner.
The extra Hack version number, the release dates, and the newsgroup
creation are from
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/hack.html
which is the "Brouwer's /Hack/ page at CWI" external link near the
end of Andries Brouwer's Wikipedia page.
Fix two of the unresolved issues from the previous reconciliation
between dat/history and doc/Guidebook.*: synchronize the list of
devteam members for 3.0 and also the information about Izchak's
death.
Add a description of the Y2K situation. It's been moved to its
own paragraph and rephrased from the earlier draft(s), both the
introduction and a switch from present to past tense. Parentheses
around a whole paragraph look a bit odd but including the paragraph
without them also looks unusual because the context is so different
from adjacent paragraphs. Maybe use "Note: Blah blah..." instead
of "(Blah blah...)"?
Redo the paragraph about 3.0 version numbering since the situation
was more complex than I realized.
Eliminate most of the minor differences between dat/history and the
end section of doc/Guidebook.txt which didn't seem to be intentional.
Several commas, a couple of past/present tense discrepancies, and
various clauses or whole sentences which were in one but not the
other. There are still differences which this doesn't address.
Also a couple of actual changes. Make the Guidebook refer to itself
as "this document" rather than "this paper". Change "dozens of
people's work" to "scores of people's work". Add a new sentence
describing the version numbering scheme used by 3.0, which wasn't
3.0.x yet.
Warwick did the heavy lifting of the first tiles implementation. But
I was the one who suggested changing his terminology to "tiles" even
though that doesn't match the term's traditional usage in computer
graphics. Since then, our [mis-]usage has spread beyond nethack and
its variants. [This isn't just bragging; I recall several years ago
that someone thought our implementation of tiles for MS-DOS was the
original implementation. Their search of the newsgroup archives didn't
find Warwick's original announcement--Atari binaries and/or a source
patch in between releases--because the term "tiles" wasn't in use yet.]
I'm not sure whether Dean's font preceded Warwick's icons, but the
concept did. If the description of their implemenations is backwards
than that bit should be reworded.
Also, add a sentence explaining why NetHack++ "was quickly renamed
NetHack--".
A bunch of trailing spaces crept in with the most recent udpate;
remove them. Also, most sentences are separated from each other by
two spaces, but 2 or 3 had only one space. Also, rewrap a couple of
the widest lines although none of them were too wide for displaying
within 80 columns.
README - add VMS back as a tested platform; thanks KevinS!
dat/history - add VMS update, remove trailing whitespace, two spaces;
instead of just one (recently added stuff) for sentence separation;
sys/vms/Install.vms - minimal update;
Files - reformat the win32 project section to fit within 80 columns.
Changes to be committed:
modified: dat/history
modified: doc/Guidebook.mn
modified: doc/Guidebook.tex
- include new 3.6.0 beta testers in dungeoneers list
Changes to be committed:
modified: DEVEL/code_features.txt
modified: Files
modified: dat/history
On 4/11/2015 6:45 PM, Dion Nicolaas wrote:
> Errors in text files:
> - DEVEL/code_features.txt, line 10: 'alterting' should be 'alerting'
fixed
> - dat/history: Is it intentional that I'm no longer mentioned as
> maintaining the Windows port? I am for 3.4, but not for 3.6.
fixed
> - Files: The Files file is incomplete. Notably, the new files in dat/
> are missing (bogusmon.txt, engrave.txt, epitaph.txt),
fixed
> the DEVEL directory, doc/Guidebook.*
> - Some files in Files have the wrong case: NetHack.sln,
> NetHackW.vcxproj. I know it doesn't matter on windows but it looks wrong.
fixed
Proposed by Michael Allison.
Seconded by Pat Rankin.
(it can always be withdrawn if there is a later objection)
-Author of Spanish NetHack
-Author of some NT keyboard internationalization fixes
-Author of "Hell patch"
