I think the online authors deserve a text processor command that wraps a string with < >.

My original thought was to add a "{br}" for "<br/>", but it seems like it would be almost the same amount of work to have "{element:br/}" print <br/>, or "{element:style}" print <style>, or what have you.

Would this be handy to have in the web editor?

(At the moment it doesn't matter, because I can't find where I once read how to add text processor commands, but I'll eventually find it. Or someone will hit me with a link or something.)

Doh! It was my post I was almost remembering.

https://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/qfu6jgz52u6pteocerjavw/text-processor-adding-br-hr-etc

Hmm… That {element: command sounds like a good idea (at least for the online editor, where strings containing < break code view). But I think it might get tiresome typing element so many times; maybe a shorter synonym would be a good idea. Even something like {:style}.

Off the top of my head, maybe you could do something like…

textprocessordefault => {
  if (IsRegexMatch(":?/?\w+\\b((?<=\\s)\\w+\\b|(?<=\\s)\\w+=\\w+\\b|(?<=\\s)\\w+=\"[^\"]*\"|(?<=\\s)\\w+='[^']*')*/?\\s*", section)) {
    if (StartsWith (section, ":")) section = LTrim (Mid (section, 2))
    game.textprocessorcommandresult = "<" + section + ">"
  }
  else {
    game.textprocessorcommandresult = "@@@open@@@" + ProcessTextSection (section, data) + "@@@close@@@"
  }
}
game.textprocessorcommands = game.textprocessorcommands
dictionary add (game.textprocessorcommands, ":", textprocessordefault)
dictionary add (game.textprocessorcommands, "/", textprocessordefault)

Then you can do {:span id="spoooon"}spoon?{/span} or whatever if you're getting frustrated with the online editor :)

Oh yeah, that looks much better.

I was trying to avoid adding new things to any pull requests this time around, but this would make like much easier for online authors -- and I don't see how it could hurt anything.