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Make quotes part of grammar #22

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Infernio opened this issue Feb 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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Make quotes part of grammar #22

Infernio opened this issue Feb 28, 2022 · 0 comments
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Infernio commented Feb 28, 2022 •
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Replaces #3. I want Zoia to be intuitive, and quotes are simply a lot more intuitive than a command for something as important as dialogue:

\s[Quick,] Anna said, \s[they need our help!]

vs.

"Quick," Anna said, "they need our help!"

We can still deliver all of the advantages of a command this way too (fancy quotes, ensuring it's closed, etc.).

Probably best to let dialogue span multiple lines so that long dialogue can be broken up to make it more readable - something like this:

// lineElementND disallows directly nested dialogue
dialogue: '"' lineElementND+ '"';
dialogueML: '"' lineElementND (Newline | lineElementND)* '"';

Consider what to do to prevent nesting dialogue inside marked up text, commands, etc. - verify after syntax checking?
@Infernio Infernio changed the title Make quotes prt of grammar Make quotes part of grammar Feb 28, 2022
@Infernio Infernio added the enhancement New feature or request label Feb 28, 2022
@Infernio Infernio added this to the v0.1.0 milestone Feb 28, 2022
@Infernio Infernio modified the milestones: v0.1.0, v0.2.0 Mar 9, 2022
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Restrict aliases to letters & numbers
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This gives a huge usability improvement, because now you can write e.g.

 "@A!", @C shouted as she ran towards her friend.

and it would get parsed properly:

 "@A|!", @C| shouted as she ran towards her friend.

Before this change, you would have had to add the bar terminator to @A
to get this to work, otherwise it would have been parsed as:

 "@A!",| @C| shouted as she ran towards her friend.

Note that that would have changed slightly as soon as #22 is done, to
something like this:

 "@A!|", @C| shouted as she ran towards her friend.

But that also still needs a terminator to be correct. With how often
punctuation occurs after an alias (e.g. a character's name), that isn't
great. This way we only lose the ability to have aliases with
punctuation in them, which doesn't strike me as a problem. I did keep
numbers in because I can see those being useful (@A1, etc.).

Closes #39
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