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Bregga
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Post by Bregga » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:10 am

I was wondering if it would be at all possible to change it so that when you speak you use a quotation mark instead of an apostrophe. It would keep speech speech when ever you use an apostrophe in a word.
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Re: Smote

Post by Tavik » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:24 am

You already can. I use quotes all the time for the exact reason you bring up and it works fine. Are quotes not working for you?
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Re: Smote

Post by Raona » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:13 pm

Smote does work with quotation marks, but Say and Sayto do not, and it catches me out often enough that observant folks know all my alts because (among other things) I still spit out things like
Newbie says ' "I talk a lot. '
I'd make a related suggestion, if it is workable, which would be to have " or ' work in all of these commands.

In more detail, here's the current output for a given set of commands:
Input: SMOTE raises a brow and asks "What's that?"
Output: Gorby raises a brow and asks 'What's that?'.

Input: SAY "What's that?"
Output: You say ' "What's that?" '

Input: SAYTO horse "What's that?"
Output: You say to a white filly ' "What's that?" '

Assuming the code is already in place for SMOTE, and is compatible with commands that don't require a speech delimiter at all, it would be great if it could be applied to SAY and SAYTO such that the output would become (I change output ' to ", as well)
Input: SMOTE raises a brow and asks "What's that?"
Output: Gorby raises a brow and asks "What's that?".

Input: SAY "What's that?"
Output: You say "What's that?"

Input: SAYTO horse "What's that?"
Output: You say to a white filly "What's that?"


The current SMOTE code even maintains ' functionality if, for some reason, you do want to quote someone else (and thus use " in your speech):
Input: SMOTE coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said "death"
Output: Gorby coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said "death" '.

and, conversely, (though I'd love to see the outer ' become ")
Input: SMOTE coughs and says "I beg your pardon, I thought you said 'death'
Output: Gorby coughs and says 'I beg your pardon, I thought you said 'death' '.

I consider this the best of both worlds...and it does urge me toward using SMOTE all the time, which I'm told we should strive for...but I still SAY and SAYTO quite often.
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