Make the preface have an unnumbered header and force a new paragraph
for its text;
remove the unterminated switch to bold font;
change "Terry Pratchett" from bold to italics to match Guidebook.tex's
setting.
Allow 'P' and 'R' commands to accept armor and wear/take-off the chosen
item, and 'W' and 'T' commands to accept accessories and put-on/remove
the item. The which-object prompt only lists the type(s) of items that
traditionally go with each command, as does an inventory menu if the
user picks '?', but items of the alternate type(s) can be chosen, by
unshown letter or by the inventory menu given for '*'.
There shouldn't be much difference if you continue picking items that
go with the original commands, although you will somestimes get
"which object? [*]" when the only choices are for alternate command.
And you won't see the all-four-accessories-are-already-worn message
for 'P' unless you also have something worn in all seven armor slots.
The Guidebook.mn changes have been tested (that's how/why I noticed
the preface glitch) but the corresponding Guidebook.tex ones haven't.
Reported by ais; clearing object bypass bits once per turn isn't often
enough. Clear them after the hero moves (which might be more than once
in a turn) and before each monster moves (ditto) and after last monster
moves. This might not be optimal but that shouldn't matter since it's
usually a no-op.
Add macros W_WEAPON and W_ACCESSORY, similar to existing W_ARMOR, bitmask
of all the relevant worn bits. Just for code readability; there should
be no change in behavior.
Also, reformat the "ugly checks" portion of getobj(). Slightly better
readability and fewer continuation lines, but only a modest improvement.
I have several psssages for Maskerade too, but after the time and effort
spent fixing up the ones already present for that book, they'll have to
wait until some other occasion.
Replace instances of strings split across lines which rely on C89/C90
implicit concatenation of string literals to splice them together
with single strings that are outdented relative to the code that uses
them. It's uglier but it won't break compile for pre-ANSI compilers.
This covers many files in src/ that only have one or two such split
strings. There are several more files which have three or more. Those
will eventually be '(2 of 2)'.
Noticed along the way: the fake mail message/subject
Report bugs to devteam@nethack.org.
wasn't using its format string of "Report bugs to %s.", so would have
just shown our email address. Doesn't anybody enable fake mail anymore?
I modified that format to enclose the address within angle brackets and
made a similar change for the 'contact' choice of the '?' command.
If color or dark_room options were toggled during gameplay, and then
the game is saved and restored with different options, the dark room
glyphs were wrong.
Reported by both Boudewijn and Pat.
As reported by Pat:
> After leaving a level and then returning, I'm seeing lit
> room squares as blank
> Options all have their default settings
OPTIONS=nocolor is the default; we should probably change this
sometime, because nearly everyone plays with color.
%o[hij] relied on makesingular() converting "the Eyes of the Overworld"
into "the Eye of the Overworld" to recognize when it should use
they/them/their instead of it/it/its, but makesingular() was changed to
keep "eyes" intract instead of stripping the 's'. So qtext_pronoun()
needs to check for "Eyes" itself.
Add summary lines for the deliver-by-window messages of the Healer
quest. Also, replace a bunch of hard-coded pronouns for leader,
nemesis, and in one case, patron deity in the Healer messages plus
the three roles which precede it (Arc, Bar, Cav).
The breakfast+coffee+doughnut one is by the far the longest we've had,
but I decided not to try trimming any of it out. It was at the start
of a 10 page stretch that has six good passages, but I've only included
three of them.
I've got passages for two more books queued up, but transcribing and
proofreading is a chore....
Add new entries to the menu used for the '/' command: describe nearby
monsters, describe all shown monsters, describe nearby objects, and
describe all shown objects. It makes a text window listing monsters--
or objects--currently displayed on the map, showing lines of
X r,c monster-or-object description
where 'X' is symbol (monster or object class letter for tty), 'r,c' is
row and column separated by comma, and description is similar to what
using '/y' or ';' manually would provide (how-seen info is omitted
when listing monsters).
Originally intended for blind players using screen readers to describe
what is displayed, but will probably get used by other players too.
The map doesn't use a separate set of glyphs for objects which are the
tops of piles, so the information that there are additional objects
beneath the ones shown isn't available to '/' and ';'. That feels like
a bug to me....
If you've just received the "dead bat revives as a vampire" message,
suppress the rather obscure "Maybe not..." message given when an unseen
creature gets life-saved since it ends up being out of sequence. You
could get them both when the death/revival was sensed via telepathy
without being in sight.
Also, some formatting cleanup and a couple miscellaneous code tweaks.
Implement the requested feature to have an automatic annotation on the
dungeon level with the quest entry portal where you sense the leader
summoning you. It stays even after entering the portal (which results
in another automatic annotation of "portal to quest"), up until you
return to that level after having completed the quest.
Add a second one for the quest home level once the leader has given
you the go ahead to start the quest. After completing the quest that
one remains but its wording is changed.
This ought to haved incremented EDITLEVEL but I decided to risk leaving
current save files viable. That should work ok for anyone who isn't
overriding the default definition of Bitfield(), although odd behavior
could conceivably occur. New games have nothing to worry about.
Fix a couple of instances of a mis-indented block comment which happens
to be immediately preceded by an end-of-line comment. Change a couple of
| if (condition)
| something;
| else {
| other_stuff;
| }
to have braces around the 'then' part. Remove some gratuitous 'register'
declarations.
Make both pairs of iron boots weigh the same (kicking boots become
heavier). Make boots of water walking weigh the same as levitation
and elven boots (slightly lighter; 3/4 as much as speed, fumbling,
and mundane high boots).
Clean up some of the epitaphs. Mostly to always use two spaces when
separating sentences.
A lot of them have terminating punctuation, and a lot of them don't.
I mostly left those alone; should they be made consistent?
Allow one item to be taken out of a pile, and leave framework in place
for partial splits so that all monsters will take up to their capacity,
rather than leaving the whole pile if it's too big to take all at once.
Betatesters noticed the death message could overflow the text tombstone,
because the helpless reason was also shown there.
So don't show the helpless at all in the tombstone. The helpless is
still put in the record, logfile, and as a separate while-field in xlogfile.
