[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Descriptions for technologies

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/08/21 03:26 , Mark Cote wrote:
>Are there any plans to add descriptions to each technological advancement,
>as the original game does?  If so (or even if not :) I'd be interested in
>helping to write some of those.

The code looks like it's all there to handle techs' helptexts.

Just add them to the .../techs.ruleset files, much as they are in the
.../units.ruleset files.  E.g.:

.
.
.
flags    = ""
helptext = _("\
This is some help text.  You can have\
 more than one line of help text.  Text is wrapped.\
\n\
The above forces a new line.\
\n\n\
You can even have multiple paragraphs. \
 There's two spaces between a period and the beginning\
 of the next sentence (hence, the space after the\
 period three lines above and here). \
 Remember, each line in a helptext entry\
 must end with a back-slash...\
")
; (...except the line above, which closes the entry.)
.
.
.

I think it would be great to have descriptions of tech advancements, as
long as they are not copied from some copyrighted source.  We must be able
to distribute them under the GPL.

jjm