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From: egh@raisin.bagel.org (Erik Hetzner)
Subject: Re: First person, past tense
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 01:00:50 GMT
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: If you're using inform, you'd just have to replace the L___M routine in
: verblibm.h (yes?) (can you replace routines?).

 Just add a LibraryMessages (or some such) object, with a lot of
various messages. This is what the Designer's Manual does, anyways.

: Personally I couldn't see this working for IF, but go ahead and do it. 
: It could work brilliantly (and if it didn't, I wouldn't think it would
: be a major task to change it to 2nd person present).

 Exactly -- I'll give it a shot. I find, though, that I have a natural
tendency to write my descriptions originally in second person, and
have to change them to first. :) Still...
 It adds a little interest to an otherwise ordinary story, I think.
 Gad, I must be 2/3 finished, but there's still a ton of work. Still,
I'm trying to think of every possible way to say something so as not
to have any problems with guess-the-verb. It can be tough, to,
because people get used to standard Inform syntax, and new users of
Interactive Fiction can have a very tough time playing.
 In any case,
-- 
Erik Hetzner <egh@raisin.bagel.org>
