& books & book ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books ||| ||| Books, in our IC world have been made to act as close to books in ||| the real world as is feasably possible. Things you can't do with an ||| IC book are things like hilighting/editing. Once you've written on ||| them, that's it. However, unlike real life, you can write as much on ||| a single page as you wish provided that you write it all at one ||| time. (I suggest keeping your length reasonable or it'll be too long ||| on each page) ||| ||| Books have the following 'commands' associated with them: ||| close look flip length (wiz/owner) ||| read preview use write ||| (to access help on these, type 'help book ') ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help local' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book close & books close ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'close' command ||| ||| Closing a book is obviously what you do when you're done with it. It ||| will cause you to close the book (so that you can then drop it -- ||| you can't drop a open book). Closing a book will also cause the book ||| to ignore further commands you try to use on it (except look and ||| use). ||| ||| Syntax: ||| close ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book look & books look ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'look' command ||| ||| Books will show different things when they are looked at, based on ||| if you are using the book and have it open right now or not. If the ||| book is closed, all you'll ever see is the cover. If it's open, the ||| book will either show it's internal pages. ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book flip & books flip ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'flip' command ||| ||| Flip is a command to move a book to another page to read it. This ||| command is nice when you want to go to a specific page further on in ||| the book or further previous, but it's not that nice to just read ||| through a book. Consider using 'read' instead to combine a 'look and ||| flip to next page' command in that case. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| flip to ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book length & books length ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'length' command ||| ||| Length is a wizard or book owner only command that will adjust the ||| length of a book. You can increase and decrease the length (actually ||| it sets the length to whatever number you provide and won't accept ||| negative values) by any amount. Setting a length of 0 will give you ||| the cover of a book with no pages only. ||| ||| Note that if you set the length below the current length it will ||| simply truncate any text past the new length, and that text will be ||| lost. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| length = ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book read & books read ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'read' command ||| ||| Read is a command which combines 'look' and 'flip' to allow you to ||| easialy read through a book, as you would in real life. Each time ||| you read a book, you will first look at the current page, then flip ||| to the next page. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| read ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book preview & books preview ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'preview' command ||| ||| The preview command is included for those writing in books, so that ||| you can preview how your text is going to get formatted before you ||| actually write it into the book permenantly. ||| ||| Note that this command does all the checking that a write command ||| will, the only difference is that it doesn't actually have you write ||| in the book. Any errors here, such as "Invalid page" or "You can't ||| seem to write in the book" are the same errors you will get if you ||| tried to write into the book without fixing the error. ||| ||| If you're using raw telnet, or some other connection method without ||| command recall, consider writing your text in an attribute on your ||| player, and then using a block of ||| '[v(attribute_you_wrote_text_in)]' to retrieve that text. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| preview = ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book use & books use ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'use' command ||| ||| The use command really isn't a command on the book, it's the MUSH's ||| builtin 'use' command. However, this is the method you should use to ||| open up a book so that you can read it in, or write in it, etc. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| use ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ & book write & books write ______________________________________________________________________________ 0=0=0 The Annointed: help on books 'write' command ||| ||| The write command is used, obviously, to write text into a book. You ||| can only write text on empty pages, and may not add text to an ||| already written on page (unless you are a wizard or the owner of the ||| book). You will probably but not necessarialy need a 'pen' or ||| 'quill' object to actually be able to write in the book, depending ||| on your local configuration (you'll get an error if you need it). ||| ||| Writing always occurs on the current page of the book, and if you ||| have permissions to overwrite previous text, it will do so SILENTLY, ||| so be careful with it. ||| ||| Syntax: ||| write = ||| 0=0=0 See also: 'help books' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~