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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

PS. If someone with programming skills wants to help me out with a small program to format the text let me know! [:)]

ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

PS. If someone with programming skills wants to help me out with a small program to format the text let me know! [:)]

Something like that could be done, but it would take an awful lot of time to program and test it takes a lot less time to format it yourself. The problem is that its all markup formatting so you can't simply copy it from another program where you have made it 'pretty'.

Roger

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Yeesh.

Have you tried Notepad++? In "programming school", all the early exercises on reading, writing, and formatting text are extreeeeeeeemely tedious. I'll pass [:'(].

To clarify a bit what I would like: I want to just paste the text into a box or whatever and the program then adds the formatting for colors, size, quotes, bold text and whatnot. The program would have to recognize where to put the formatting and stuff and its way beyond what I can do. The actual format are just text within brackets.

This is how my usual formatting of ground combat looks like:

Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3135 troops, 100 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 215

Defending force 420 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Allied adjusted assault: 170

Japanese adjusted defense: 3

Allied assault odds: 56 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Milne Bay !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
1st Australian Division

Defending units:
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy

Its a PITA to do it manually when there are loads of attacks. Air attacks are usually more numerous and takes even longer if there are several I want to show. That quote above takes about 2 minutes to do. Now imagine if there are 5 attacks...and 10 air combats I want to show. It can take up to about 30 mins to manually edit in all the formatting sometimes. Then add a few screens and some screen editing and just doing the screens and formatting can take up to an hour.

ORIGINAL: mind_messing


Better yet, something that you can have read your open CR file and choose which combats to format.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I think he has written off those troops and just wants to grab cadres of each unit for rebuild.

If that TF in your screenshot really has a CV your subs will be showing high detection levels. Only reason I can think of for him to have a single CV there is ASW and CAP for whatever transports he has left. Would be a great finish to put a few torpedoes into it!

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: mind_messing


Better yet, something that you can have read your open CR file and choose which combats to format.

Again, I'm wondering about macros in a high-powered text editor... I know you can do really useful macros for just about anything in Excel, so why wouldn't Word be the same? Maybe it's not and I'm totally off base.

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sorry guys. Stuck in bed with a bad fever. [:(]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Should also add that the pace has not picked up since Jeff finished his other game. I´ll give him a few more days but after that I´ll have to bring it up with him. To be honest I don´t think I would be very upset if the game ended here. Motivation is pretty much zero right now. Might be due to the pace though.