[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion: myth about freeciv

[Jason Dorje Short <vze49r5w@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Røsdal wrote:
> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > Now about the difficult task: some people don't like it if the Myth is
> > shown. Either display doc/PEOPLE or some new written file.
> >  
> Sure. Then doc/PEOPLE has to be read from file,
> and some algorithm has to split it into chars that fit
> on a line. Any ideas?
It would be nice to let the tileset specify what file is to be used. 
However, this runs into problems with translation (it's hard to have it 
done automatically).  Another alternative is to let the tileset specify 
the string itself that is to be used for the intro.  Here the string 
would look something like the nation legends from data/nation/*.ruleset.
Either way, you will have to handle newlines yourself unless the GUI can.

IMO the current 'myth' text is quite uninspiring, and doc/PEOPLE is even 
worse.  So we need someone to write something exciting :-).  Even 
without this, the code could still be good if it let the tileset specify 
what to do - so that once somebody writes something cool later the 
tilesets will be able to take advantage of the code.  But we will need 
at least one tileset to demonstrate the feature.
You should send your (next) patch to RT, our bug/patch tracker: 
rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
jason