Guide: Wraithlord's dominionsKB *major* ver 1.00

[WraithLord]

Wow, your feedback is really great Thank you guys.

I'll post the document here and also send it to Gandalf.

The recommended viewer for this is GVIM (preferably with UTL script). With UTL the document feels like a wiki since it contains internal links.

Its quite easy to change to any other format like latex (for generating PDF) or HTML via some script. I can do both if there's demand (though my past experience suggests conversion to latex is much more complex).

Uploading now...

[Wrana]

Maybe you will also link to the appropriate viewer, eh?

[WraithLord]

good idea. Updated first post.

[QXel]

WraithLord,

I just take a quick look, and it is really AWESOME & IMPRESSIVE!

I can't imagine the time spend on it ...

Well, I'm not a fund to use more many specific tools (GVIM & co.) so is it an alternative way of reading your KB conveniently? I precise: WITHOUT converting YOUR work. You've allready done a fantastic job, so I won't ask you to convert in some other format, but just if you know the possibility to read it as it is in other way.
I can open it it as a text file, but it is definitly NOT convenient

But having it in another format will be great (I join Edi on this point). If I knew how to convert such file, I'll do, but I'm just an expert on M$ Office stuffs (I work a lot on it in my job).
I wish I could. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/PointRight.gif[/img] Perhaps with some little help? [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/PointUp.gif[/img]

Also, I like having these kind of stuff offline, and I often print them because I don't like read long texts on a screen: too difficult & exhausting. I often read printed threads in my bed before sleeping It makes me dreaming of Dom

Again: a very big thanks you for what you've done. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img]

[Endoperez]

I tried using GVim, but it's confusing. I can't get the links to work, but I'm not sure if I got the plugin working correctly. It'd be simpler to use if it was in some format I knew how to use, but it's worth using even as it is. Thanks for compiling this.

[WraithLord]

Thank you all for your compliments. It makes happy to know you find it useful.

As to your points,
First, to use with vim you need to do the following:
1. Download and install VIM.

It can be installed on all platforms.

2. DL the UTL script

2.1 Unzip it to VIM plugin dir. For example, on my windows its "c:\Program Files\Vim\vim71\plugin", on my linux its in "/users/username/.vim/plugin"

2.2 Start VIM. Then run :call Utl_finish_installation()
meaning, you press : to go to VIM command prompt, then you type (or paste) call Utl_finish_installation(), last you press enter.

2.3 Open the document with VIM. For any entry in the TOC you can jump directly to section by doing pressing \gu when cursur is on <> thingi. I'll give an example,
I want to read the Patala guide, I open the document in VIM after completing the above steps then I press /Patala (tell VIM to search for Patala). I get to-
7.14 Patala <URL:#tn= 7.14 Patala>
7.14.1 Guide to playing Patala competitively <URL:#tn= 7.14.1 Guide to playing Patala competitively>

Now I press f< (tell VIM to go to first <> link),
then I press \gu (tell UTL to jump to link) and I get directly to Patala section.

As for converting as Edi suggested, converting to HTML is relatively easy. Would that make the document more convenient to read?- If so, I'll make the conversion.

[Sombre]

Html would be most useful if you were to convert it. Everyone here by definition can use html.

[lch]

Ooohhh, hahaha, I just noticed that you're trying to get Windows users to use a text editor like VIM. +1 geek points to you, but I'm quite positive that this HAS to fail.

I've had a look at the file structure. While there seems to be no parsers/converters at all for the UTL thing, it would be quite easy to write something for this. I could write something which outputs a big-*** HTML document, for example, but since all the text is considered pre-formatted and uses text-style bullet lists etc., I don't think that it's very feasible. If anybody wants to have this more portable, then I'd like to ask you to either use a text format which allows a little more markup, like the format that man pages use or Perl's POD, or just really start a Wiki on this and do it all in Wikitext.