"a" vs "a n"

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:18 am

In Galaxy 3:
"The planet Bixein is a n unremarkable dump."

This file needs to be edited:
Contents/Resources/Config/descriptions.plist

Line 247 changed from:
<string>a [15] [16]</string>
to:
<string>a[15] [16]</string>

This has been tested and does not break the other cases.

However, there's another bug that can't be solved quite as easily. In Galaxy 1:
"The world Ara is scourged by a evil disease."
This will require array [26] to be duplicated since it is used both with and without an article.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:02 am

Fixored. (removed the use of the article in 'a [26]...' with simply '[26]...')

Odo987 · Post by **Odo987** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:52 am

aegidian wrote:
Fixored.

Thanks.

Wait, did I just obsolete your sig? Sorry.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:39 pm

Yes. Now whose rear should I scourge?!

TedJ · Post by **TedJ** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:16 pm

aegidian wrote:
Yes. Now whose rear should I scourge?!

If it's between consenting adults, it's none of my business. But at least buy them dinner first...

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:28 am

TedJ wrote:
aegidian wrote:
Yes. Now whose rear should I scourge?!
If it's between consenting adults, it's none of my business. But at least buy them dinner first...

Don't you mean afterwards!!!

TedJ · Post by **TedJ** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:41 am

TGHC wrote:
TedJ wrote:
aegidian wrote:
Yes. Now whose rear should I scourge?!
If it's between consenting adults, it's none of my business. But at least buy them dinner first...
Don't you mean afterwards!!!

No, no, no. That's when you ask them their name...

<bad comedian>Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!</bad comedian>

SandJ · Post by **SandJ** » Mon May 14, 2012 11:41 pm

When I first saw the text "[size=120][i]xxx[/i] is a n unremarkable dump.[/size]" in the Galaxies Spreadsheet, I was tickled as it reproduces what I remembered as a 'bug' in the Spectrum Elite.

But I see Oolite does not do the same, it says (for example) "[size=120]The planet Edorte is an unremarkable dump.[/size]"

And it is not just the Galaxies Spreadsheet that has this text. As spotted by Albee, the Wiki planet list does the same thing.

Has Oolite been 'fixed' to remove this grammatical error? Or is it a false memory - did this error exist in Elite or not? And what should Oolite do?

Edit: Answering my own second question - apparently it was a false memory

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Post by **another_commander** » Tue May 15, 2012 7:42 am

OMG, six year old threadomancy, that has to be one of the best performances on this board!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue May 15, 2012 10:44 am

another_commander wrote:
OMG, six year old threadomancy, that has to be one of the best performances on this board!

Yes, that has to beat the old record by lengths.

Congratulations!

SandJ · Post by **SandJ** » Tue May 15, 2012 11:11 am

another_commander wrote:
OMG, six year old threadomancy, that has to be one of the best performances on this board!

But you must admit, it was on topic. And it does highlight a problem with lots of Wiki pages and the Galaxy Spreadsheet - although I see it has changed immensely since I downloaded it and no longer shows this " a n " behaviour.

Commander McLane wrote:
Yes, that has to beat the old record by lengths.

Congratulations!

My previous record was 5 years 5 months. But I was told up front that this forum prefers people to post in existing threads, so I am being a well-behaved - if resurrectionist - Commander.

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