New Readme file

Plazmic · Post by **Plazmic** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:31 pm

I rewrote the readme to help newbies know what to expect.
Just cut and paste this into readme.html

<html>
<title>MacroQuest readme</title>
<body>
The forum search button is your friend<br>
<b>Good luck ;)</b>
</body>
</html>

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:37 pm

Heh...

It's being worked on Plazmic.

I never realized some of the commands and variables had so many options until trying to rewrite this.

Someone else offered to help so two of us are working on it, and it's pretty close to being done, at least the txt format version.

Stogar · Post by **Stogar** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:30 pm

I'm the other guy helping Wassup, but he has done the huge amount of work on the manual. I'm just doing some extra checking and documenting as well as adding examples. I was amazed at how much information he went through. I dunno how much time it took, but it looks like a ton. I for one am glad he took it on.

The main file now is plain text, but I've got a reworked html version started. Funny enough I was just putting a word about using "search" into it. I was using it myself to add content to the install part when I saw this thread.

Maybe a line at the top like "If you have trouble with left and right please stop reading now"

Imperfect · Post by **Imperfect** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 1:36 pm

Plaz I guess this means you finish your major code cleanup soon so that Wassup doesn't have to rewrite any commands

DekeFentle · Post by **DekeFentle** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:00 am

If you have the file done could you please post it? Any help beyond what is currently up would be great!

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:22 pm

It's too big to post here, and isn't quite finished yet. A few of the variables/commands need to be finished.

Hopefully the devs can give it a once over before including it in with the CVS also. I'm sure there are a few things that might have been overlooked.

Currently it's about 31k of text without any html formatting.

EqMule · Post by **EqMule** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 6:42 pm

you got my msn, whenever you wanna send it over ill look at it...

EqMule · Post by **EqMule** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:56 pm

ok its in the latest zipfile on downloads page now... note that its a beta. post comments/updates and "bugfixes" for readme.html in the forums.

Amadeus · Post by **Amadeus** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:56 pm

Wassup ...if you need a good/easy/powerful html editor (ie, Homesite), send me PM.

I'm glad you're taking this on :) ...I'm too enthralled with Lax's IDC stuff to get much of anything else done ..hehe

wassup · Post by **wassup** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 1:25 am

Thanks Amadeus.

Biggest help would be for anyone and everyone to go over it for any mistakes.

Already corrected one that EQMule pointed out.

There are a few I am unsure of...

$char(hotbutton,x) for example. It crashes the EQ client if I do /echo $char(hotbutton,1). I wasn't sure what the command did, and still don't.