[Freeciv-Dev] Re: History educational idea

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Tobias Brox wrote:

> > Yes good. What we should do is purposly put mistakes in it. Then Everyone
> > will start posting fixes =)
> > So all that needs to be done is fix the help so that it can display a
> > "large" or "small" text.
> 
> Yeah.  At least it seems to me that nobody disagree with "my" plans (which
> I probably have taken from the good old commercial civilization - though I
> cannot remember), so I guess we can proceed - meaning that somebody will
> have to "upgrade" the help, and that we need to decide where and how to
> include this information in the source. 
> 
> The easiest would be to just add one or two attributes to the rulesets.
> Like data/default/buildings.ruleset (pseudo-unified-diff :)    :
> 
> [building_darwins_voyage]
> name        = _("Darwin's Voyage")
> tech_req    = "Railroad"
> obsolete_by = "None"
> is_wonder   = 1
> build_cost  = 300
> upkeep      = 0
> variant     = 0
> +historytext = _("\
>  Charles Darwin was heading out with his ship Beagle in the 19th\
>  century to make a survey on the species.  He put out his theories\
>  about evolution in the work The Origin of Species (1859/60) which\
>  inspired greater confidence in science. Charles Darwin was British.\
> ")
> +historyurls = _("http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/";)
> helptext    = _("\
> -Charles Darwin's voyage sparked the discovery of the evolution\
> - of the species, which inspired greater confidence in science.\
>  Gives two immediate technology advances.\
> ")

Yes that is good.... obviously it could be reworded abit... but that is
all we want... Once that feature has been added then it will be a simple
matter to modify. I think this idea should be implemented....
 
> The "better" way to do it is to mark up the history notes in XML, but it's
> probably more hazzle ... and also, the help should be a simple help, not a
> web browser ... or?  Cross-references would be nice in the help?  Maybe
> it's possible to "steal" some mozilla-code or similar? Well, _that_
> certainly sounds like hazzle.. :)

Nah... From what i have seen Mozilla is more bloated than.. Sounds silly
to go to that trouble when all we are interested in is a paragraph or two
describing something..... I vote idea one =)

Darth bob

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